crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. And how does this impact your new company? Who is correct?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2020

For example, surveys show that New York and Shanghai apartment dwellers are realizing that giving up a balcony for a little more floor space in their aeries made them prisoners of quarantine: most buyers newly say they wouldn’t make the same decision again. It will be less different than many pundits expect.

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Artificial Inteligence Aggregator New York Technology 149

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020. Your data will be ordered and structured into information based on specific niches like engineering and construction, finance, technology, and business.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A check-in aggregation platform. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. We spoke briefly about why. Short answer: no.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. (Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.)

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

While working at two major law firms in New York City, I saw first-hand how investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley play this game quite effectively. Indeed, this is customary in public deals and large private deals if the buyer is unable to obtain financing and can be as high as 10% of the purchase price.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Acquisition New York City Non-Compete 101

Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

Shopping and Auctions and Rakuten, an online shopping site Aggregator which generates 25% of its total sales via mobile. · To shed some light, here are some of the more interesting stats I found: · Revenues from mobile shopping and auctions started to outgrow mobile content revenues as early as 2005. participate in auctions.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, if you’re a wine retailer in New York, missing a payment to your supplier by just one day means that your next shipment will have to be paid on delivery, putting a huge strain on your cash flows. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 23, 2008

The difference between self financing and ‘going all the way’ with SolarCity is that you will pay about 15% lower monthly electricity bills, not 85% lower, while you pay off the system over 15 years. If you cannot afford the capital cost of owning your own solar array, SolarCity will do this for you NO MONEY DOWN.

San Francisco 28

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) rather than aggregating on one common platform and hoping to wade through a morass of content to catch a piece that might be relevant to their own personal interests, etc.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But, since Yipit, an aggregator of all these services, involves more user interface / user experience challenges, it made more sense for us to teach ourselves so that we could iterate on the concept till we got it right. I have a degree in finance. Just get something out there and recruit a great technical team later.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. 7.5 - 10.5% April 12, 2012 6:15 PM.

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David Teten

JUNE 13, 2012

HBO is now producing TV shows about sleazy VC dating habits, and the New York Times, clearly responding to the internet’s desire for quality journalism, just ran a piece on Silicon Valley’s most eligible bachelors (although 3 are already paired up, according to Betabeat).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Finances were just one part of the story. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. Company : Wesabe.

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Gust

DECEMBER 12, 2011

They are mentioned in any print, website, or television content concerning beauty, startups, New York, great entrepreneurs, women leaders , or the next generation of IPOs. The flocks of angels will fly away, and VCs will hoard cash to finance their existing investments. So, its almost impossible to avoid them. Nonetheless….

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In aggregate, angels are significant investors. At Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York , we have put a lot of energy into educating our community about the returns potential and process of angel investing. Across a dozen different research studies, we’ve seen median returns of 18%-54%.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

His practical take on small business is often cited as a resource in publications such as The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , and CNNMoney. Last week I had the privilege of inviting John to join me for a free webinar providing information from John’s new book, Duct Tape Selling. How does sales?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

BA : Yeah, well, the first time I saw the Bitcoin white paper, I saw it on Hacker News, which is a website that YCombinator runs. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. How did it come on your radar for the first time? I'm curious.

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

As the term implies, “crowdfunding” is funding from a crowd of people – i.e., many people provide small amounts of money to finance something. What is Crowdfunding?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. And noted New York angel Chris Dixon recently made the leap to the venture world. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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