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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the Lean Startup, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. They then buy stock in these public companies and attempt to convince management to increase the price of the shares.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

The offering is a managed service, priced at $7,000-$10,000 for a one-time setup fee and a $2,500-$3,000 per month maintenance and services charge. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 billion under management.&# I don’t really understand why VCs do this since it’s mostly a meaningless number. What is total assets under management? -

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5 Things To Consider Before Applying For A Bank Loan

YoungUpstarts

Unfortunately, though, brick and mortar banks have undergone a lot of changes since the 2008 recession — one of the biggest ones being their willingness to fund small business loans. Have you been in business for less than two years?

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How to Start a Construction Company

Up and Running

Construction companies have their ups and downs (for example, the economic crisis of 2008 hit construction firms hard ), but it’s an industry that will always have demand—and where there’s demand, there’s opportunity. What personnel will you need in the field, in management, and in the back office?

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