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Quattro Development Co-Founders Share Tips for Overcoming Mishaps in Real Estate Development

The Startup Magazine

The path to success is far from easy, which is a lesson Quattro Development’s founders, Rob Walters and Mike Liyeos, know all too well. After founding their real estate development firm during the Great Recession in 2008, the duo received a crash course in perseverance. Maybe getting some references,” Walters says.

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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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Startup founder salaries: Younger, more inexperienced entrepreneurs pay themselves less

The Next Web

Our report last week on the salaries that startup founders pay themselves stirred up a lot of discussion here on The Next Web, Hacker News , Twitter and beyond. Startup revenue and founder salary. The closest tie between founder salary and another datapoint was found in revenue. Founder age and salary.

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Business Travel Decline Due To COVID And Environmental Concerns

YoungUpstarts

by Simone Semprini, CEO & Co-Founder, TourScanner. The number of flights in the United States was reduced by over 70% in April, seven times more than the impact of the financial crisis of 2008. It was a surreal situation with over one billion people confined at home. Effect of the lockdown in the travel industry.

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Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders | @altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

by Andriy Skoropad, co-founder & CEO at Perfectial. It offered independence from financial establishments, which in the wake of 2008 were universally considered unreliable, and mere convenience. You know PayPal, have heard of Bitcoin and, probably, even stumbled upon the term FinTech a few times. and European markets.

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

www.startuplessonslearned.com

Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.

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