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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. The first company started as a BBQ catering business, and eventually focused in on their most popular product, a dip made of blended up chicken plus various sauces. BACK 9 DIPS. The entrepreneur was clearly desperate.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

The Growing Power of Women in Business | by Daniel Burrus – [link]. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013 | MIT Technology Review – [link]. Job Titles Aren’t That Important | Matt Ferguson-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Downfalls of Distributed Startups – [link].

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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. An average of these ranges results in a pre-money valuation of about $4MM. stake in the company.