Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He jokingly said something like, “I’ll let you pick the pre-money valuation if I get to pick all the other terms.&# He said it as a joke, but it is totally true that pre-money valuation is just one of a handful of key economic terms in a term sheet. One of the least understood of these key terms is the liquidation preference.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

You can set up your own merchant account later when it becomes economically viable. Conclusion What to outsource depends upon whether it’s core to your business or not AND whether there is an economically viable 3rd party solution OR whether you stand to learn substantially about your business by doing it yourself. Advertising.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

We will never be able to catch up with you in modern arms until we have an economic revolution. And the question is whether we can have an economic revolution without a political revolution.” Cold War strategy had gone from a “let’s be friends” to a “yes we can win” strategy. By the mid 1980s Ronald Reagan was cranking U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

When you think bout the economic stress and economic crisis weve been going through in this country, and you think about future economic growth, theres no question that entrepreneurship and innovation is a huge driver of future success." Brad Feld, the Startup Visa Act. Brad Feld, the Startup Visa Act.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Tags: startupcto. What It Really Means To Be a CTO Recent Tweets Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page. Marin — Built for WordPress.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 17, 2011

”: What All Good Keynesians Should Say, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty. tags: Blog economics. tags: Blog. tags: blog LeWeb socialmedia. tags: blog segmentation. Google Maps Potential As Geographical Archive Highlighted With Japan Earthquake. tags: blog google maps.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. Modern Corporation Marketing At the same time General Motors also revolutionized automotive marketing by creating multiple brands of cars, each with its own identity targeted at a specific economic bracket of American customers.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research the U.S. MicroISVs are a fantastic way to create recurring income that weathers tough economic times, especially if you have a niche product and you’re ruthless about automating everything. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. at 12:56 pm [.]

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0. In the current economic time, with capital markets tight with money, how do you best balance the right number for customer acquisition with scaring potential investors off? Tags: startup metrics startupcto. Thanks for sharing David.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Could be correlated more with general economic trends rather than language vs language. Tags: startupcto. The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Who are the economic buyers? Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] Here is the list of basic startupactivities/functions our class discussion generated: Opportunity – How big? Where do the ideas come from? Innovation – Business Model? Technology? Customers – Who are the Users?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Part of our belief in advancing this legislation is that more startup founders means more jobs and economic growth for everyone. Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « The End of Innocence The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) » 21 Responses Kulveer Taggar , on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 am Said: Great post.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Could be correlated more with general economic trends rather than language vs language. The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Who is the economic buyer? Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Something else? Who’s the customer? Who influences a sale? Who recommends a sale? Who is the decision maker?

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Altgate

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Could be you need to consider cutting back to just a couple people and then reboot to have any hope of retaining founder economics. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups , Venture Capital and tagged deal terms , founder economics , liquidation preference , venture capital. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

And it's not just the undertakers that are doing well in this economic winter.   Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged business cycle , economic cycle , economy , startup. . .  Wow, what a great business to be in right now!  Read their update (below). Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

JANUARY 7, 2009

No one is guaranteed survival in these stormy economic times, but entrepreneurs should at least be confident in the survival skills they’ve learned and be sure to put them to good use. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged entrepreneur , layoff , survival , unemployed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It’s more likely than not we’re in a similarly non-linear time… Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged crash , Europe , public market , venture capital. Bookmark the permalink. ← How Madoff Made Off Washington Out Of Control → Comments are closed.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged bailout , economy , government , stimulus. If they had not done that, their estimation is that by 2PM that afternoon, $5.5 would have collapsed the entire economy of the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

When he elaborated how CD-ROMs were going to change both the nature of gaming and the economics of the content business, we were certain he had a brilliant idea and by the end of the meeting convinced that this was a company would make a ton of money. Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.]

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So we “reshuffle our deck&# in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the last 80 years. Tags: startupcto. Facebook had opened up their platform for websites to connect to their users. We realized we could never effectively compete against them. We laid off a number of really great people in order to make our budget work.

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Altgate

JANUARY 18, 2009

The three stories that the book is most famous for are the “economic bubbles&# specifically, tulip-mania , the South Sea Company bubble and the Mississippi Company bubble. I confess that when I first bought the book in 1999, it took me a full year to read it as it sat in my “reading rack&# in my bathroom. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. That is the fundamental conundrum of online media economics; by far, the most profitable models have zero cost of content and zero cost of distribution. Tags Amazon. Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. Chronicling the undoing of traditional media.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

There are serious negative trade-off costs with using reflex designs but compared to the economic costs of each vacuum tube, it was a justified trade-off. Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] I’ll stop channeling James Burke now. to do that.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

In terms of when, 2009 is the right year because it will be at or near the bottom of this economic cycle. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged 2009 prediction , 37signals , microsoft , startup. The price will never be cheaper. And Microsoft is still sitting on a cash hoard. So why $300 million? … [.]

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In this case, the S3 becomes particularly economical because read access is 10 times cheaper than the write access. Dala December 19, 2007 at 10:17 am BigBlueHat » Blog Archive » Review: 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups December 27, 2007 at 2:41 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR… « The Startup Guy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

At every step along the way — in the 1840s, the 1890s and the 1920s — the consensus of business opinion insisted that shorter hours would strangle output and spell economic ruin. Any way you look at it, Crunch Mode used as a long-term strategy is economically indefensible. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Reply David Locke , on June 8, 2009 at 8:48 am Said: In economics, there is an industry stack. You kids have to learn to do it the old fashioned way they did it before they new economy and Silicon Valley. Bootstrap for years! It is actually a tree that organizes all sectors, industries, and sub-industries.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then you should check out the Lean Startup Machine in Chicago 11/5-7th register: [link] 05:12:51 PM October 22, 2010 from TweetDeck Blogroll Calacles Futuristic Play by @AndrewChen Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Master of 500 Hats – Dave McClure SKMurphy Startup Marketing Blog – By Sean Ellis Venture Hacks Vlaskovits Recent Posts Market Segmentation (..)

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business | Software by Rob (tags: memori.us 39 Personal IT Experiences » Economic Outlook Making You Think About Starting Your Own Business? 34 Hamd on 01.08.09 at 9:33 pm Lpm? #35 35 links for 2009-01-08 « memor.ia blog on 01.09.09 at 12:01 am [.] startup) [.] #36 Great post.

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