YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

has grown by seventeen times between 2008 and now. Home Equity Loan. A home equity loan is a great way to turn the existing value of your home into even more value. With a home equity loan, you can take out a loan on the value of your house that you’ve paid off so far. This equity serves as collateral for the loan.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

And (obviously) only the person who entered the data can see their own Scorecard…we take data security very seriously with the survey. This not only gives an idea of the “cash-equity&# trade off for this company, but also how that trade off compares to peer companies. I would love to hear your thoughts.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

Fractional CTO 40

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It is a high net-worth individual who invests his or her own money directly into promising startup businesses in return for mostly equity share of the company. angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. What is an angel investor?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

It is the first senior appointment to Chargify’s C-suite level team since it was first announced in April 2021 that Battery Ventures led a combined majority growth-equity investment of more than $150 million in Chargify and SaaSOptics.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

However, the ease with which she was able to secure venture funding was contingent on her ability to overcome what, in the VC world, is often an insurmountable barrier: the fact that she is a woman, and a woman of color, no less. While private equity has a history in the U.S. Giadha Aguirre de Carcer via Her Agenda.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It is a high net-worth individual who invests his or her own money directly into promising startup businesses in return for mostly equity share of the company. angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. What is an angel investor?

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Software Review Accredited Investor 40

femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Sweat equity or salary? But there is still the overhead of testing, scaling, and securing. We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. Yes, building software is cheap and fast unlike other products.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Where appropriate, patent or secure intellectual property by other means. Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices. Ensure uninterrupted delivery of IT services by defining and managing against external service level agreements with suppliers and internal agreements with end users.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

Currently, entrepreneurs are prohibited from doing so under the Securities Act of 1933, which requires companies who wish to sell securities to register and provide extensive information about strategy, future plans, ownership, management, etc. Currently, these Crowdfunding sites don’t give donors any equity in the companies.

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Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. years as of year-end 2008. Second, emerging growth companies lose negotiating leverage in acquisitions when they have no other viable liquidity alternatives. years in 1998 to 9.6

IPO 28

IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Film was Indiegogo’s first campaign category when the platform launched in 2008. Another big product development that formally launched in the days following our meetup is Indiegogo’s new equity crowdfunding platform , which lets entrepreneurs offer backers an equity stake in their projects and creations.

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San Francisco Vertical Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly.

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Ratchet Liquidation Preference Equity Stock 354

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thanks to Charles Reiling, Coastal Equities, Inc. ! #2- The problem is that I learned in my 17 years of corporate life that there’s no such thing called job security and my job is dependent on factors beyond my control (e.g. Global Financial Crisis in 2008). 2- People and skills. Photo Credit: Chad Pavel.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

The famed venture capitalist Peter Thiel once declared that the salary an entrepreneur collects from their startup is about a lot more than dollars and cents—it sets the precedent for the guiding force behind the company, among both internal staffers and equity shareholders. When you’ve raised the funding you need to grow.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

But, in the US, only wealthy accredited investors * have been allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to invest in entrepreneurs and their startup companies (without extensive disclosure of the business plan and risks inherent to such new ventures).

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Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Angel Investor Due Diligence 154

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

DoubleVerify recently grabbed headlines for its latest funding round of $33 million led by JMI Equity and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), based on a $200 million valuation. DoubleVerify was founded in 2008 and has raised $47 million to date. Download a copy of the 2012 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Report [pdf].

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Silicon Valley Valuation Equity Advertising 87

Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

On November 24, 2008 I wrote A Case Study in the Unintended Consequences of Financial Regulation: The Death of the U.S. in 2011 is not statistically meaningful and irrelevant to the thousands of startups that are finding it impossible to reach the much greater critical mass necessary to access the public equity capital markets today.

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Equity IPO Venture Capital United States 28

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

My full answer to this question follows: Public companies with equity market capitalizations of less than $1 billion have been negatively impacted by these market changes—and within this group, companies with capitalizations of $500 million or less have suffered the most. Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7 cents or 6.25

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008. Now, the company is poised to change the home security industry, one that is in dire need of change. Rather than home security, these guys are helping with our nations security. Anonymizer raised a small amount of equity and was able to build a business that became very profitable.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment. They could have either paid someone a healthy salary out of the profits that they are making, or they could have given someone a much smaller equity stake in the company to attract an experienced business person. Astonishingly, the entrepreneurs took the deal.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

From this time through 2008, real estate profits continued to climb, and Vagnozzi ended up repeating this process 15 more times with other fixer uppers, and also purchased 9 parcels of land and constructed and sold 9 individual homes. This provided him with a quick return on his investment from the rental income.

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New York City Marketing Technical Review New York 106

www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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Intellectual Property Founder Vesting Bridge Financing 40

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The idea at the center of his real estate revolution is “shared equity,” a concept he devised after years of research and international travel. I focused much more intently on this aspect when financial markets melted down in 2008 and 2009. The buyer shares in the equity growth in the home from the price appreciation.

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North America Equity America Singapore 118

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. We also have a great panel coming up next Thursday night, Jan.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

The Economics of Private Equity Funds demonstrates that the VC industry survives mostly on fee-based income (of which larger funds have a proportionally larger amount). Beyond the fact that LP capital commitments don’t prove anything about returns, however, large funds are likely much more resilient to a few bad years than small funds are.

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LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. Offer equity instead of cash. All cash in most secure possible instruments.

Lean 121

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 121

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In 2008, my wife and I launched an online local newspaper, The Alternative Press, which was the alternative to our local hardcopy newspaper. It was pool side, which just makes it more fun, also the out of the box atmosphere helped us be more creative! Thanks to Miriam Diwan, NowMoveMe. #8 8 – Rebrand. Image Credit : Michael Shapiro.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur Technical Review United States 48

Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Great Startup Event In Boston A Squeeze On Boston Venture Valuations → White Collar Crime Spree Posted on December 11, 2008 by fnazeeri What is going on with the rash of “white collar&# crime? Bernie Madoff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. So, I don't know, I think there will be lots of inquiries just like there were in 2008 and 2009.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans).

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Pascal's View

MARCH 28, 2009

  On November 28 th , 2008 I posted a warning on this specific issue: A Case. Advisors, they actually passed inspections by the Securities Exchange. from over a decade of misguided federal securities regulations is also at the. back to the public equity markets for emerging growth companies, and this has.

Securities and Exchange Commission 28

Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Government Global 28

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. For this round of investment, the angels collectively purchase 20-40% of the equity of the company and are seeking a return on investment of 20-30X in a period of five to eight years.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 by Nivi on February 27th, 2008 Here are more frequently asked questions about advisors. Finally, there is a beauty to paying in equity rather than an equivalent amount of cash. Equity is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Advisory Board Cap Table Vesting Equity 44

The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

In April 2008, the Summit Series’ beginnings began dubiously when 22-year old media entrepreneur Elliott Bisnow invited the nation’s top entrepreneurs out for a ski weekend to Utah’s Alta resort and put the entire bill on his credit card. They aren’t private equity backers attempting to overbuild and maximize profits.

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Utah Congo Cofounder Incubator 168

Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

which was published in November 2008. These measures would bring sales support back to stocks and provide economics to support equity research independent of investment banking. Research requirement – Firms making markets in these securities would be required to provide equity research coverage that meets minimum standards.

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IPO SEC Initial Public Offering United States 37