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Shark Tank Season 4 episode 3 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

pre money valuation). Cuban has interest in a gluten free diet, and claimed that he liked the company, but his only concern was valuation. The company came back and offered him 20% of the company for the $200k (an $800k pre money valuation). They were seeking $200k for 10% of the company (a $1.8M

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. One of the panelists mentioned that they have gotten very valuation sensitive (nothing wrong with that) and like to purchase preferred stock rather than invest in convertible notes. 1 comment: Anonymous said.

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Twitter Link Roundup #176 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Always use data, not feelings, to make business decisions – [link]. 15 Creative Washroom Advertising | Desizn World – [link].

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. The way to getrich from a startup is to maximize the companys chances of succeeding,not to maximize the amount of stock you retain.

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