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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. San Francisco, California. Your tip here. Crunch Daily.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

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Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Then Bright’s 15 data scientists and engineers looked at those results, as well as other activity on the site, to create a generalized scoring algorithm. San Francisco, California. For new MacBook Pro owners, a software update awaits.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. What a great idea.

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

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San Francisco, California. Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc. San Francisco, CA. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Crunch with us. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard. iOS Developer Anki, Inc.

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Is #NewYork the Next Startup Land of Oz?

Scalable Startup

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area.