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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. It creates dilution, and investing in these rounds increases your effective post-money. As my partner Lee always says, fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics, it’s a search for true believers. If the company wasn’t that capital efficient, the fund may end up owning 2.5%

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. It creates dilution, and investing in these rounds increases your effective post-money. As my partner Lee always says, fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics, it’s a search for true believers. If the company wasn’t that capital efficient, the fund may end up owning 2.5%

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. It creates dilution, and investing in these rounds increases your effective post-money. As my partner Lee always says, fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics, it’s a search for true believers. If the company wasn’t that capital efficient, the fund may end up owning 2.5%

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3]   I’ve never seen it in practice.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. It is the only way to ensure your leadership is not trapped in the let’s solve for 2% of our business success thinking. There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. But the business principles are very different. Hindsight is always 20/20.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. But the business principles are very different. Hindsight is always 20/20.