David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. Venture Debt.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. Equally important their VP of Marketing had brilliantly executed a stream of social media campaigns (Facebook likes and partnerships, email campaigns, etc.)

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. You could just outspend.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 29, 2017

As one can imagine, the media commentary was not pretty, calling the IPO a disappointment , the stock stale out of the box , and lamenting that the stock forgot to pop. This is an incredible entrepreneurial achievement that very, very few founders ever get to.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

This implies high odds of a scalable business, simply needing an investment to lead to success. Business model showing costs, pricing, and margins. These are not meant to be an accuracy test, but a check on your commitment level, understanding of business norms, and an assessment of company valuation over time.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. Part of my business is working with tech start-ups as an advisor/consultant. I often take stock in lieu of cash. I have a file drawer full of worthless stock certificates and I continue to add to it. Not all start-up stock is created equally.

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploitedopportunity in startup funding :" the growing disconnect betweenVCs, whose current business model requires them to invest largeamounts, and a large class of startups that need less than theyused to. Butthere may not have to be just one valuation.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Keep the valuations consistent with company progress. The bottom line is that the pedigree of your investors will have much to do with your ultimate valuation and with your enjoyment of the startup experience. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

20 years ago, much of public equity investing was done by mutual funds run by a few smart folks picking stocks. It’s hard to find anyone who says “I just have the magic” in stock picking. 645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models. Twitter Is A Media Business. Despite it’s long-standing protestations, Twitter is indeed a media company.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You’d probably go for one of the titans of technology who dominate the business media: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, to name a few. Lately, we’ve seen startups able to reach a billion-dollar valuation, so-called “unicorn” companies, in the limelight.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 It is true that understanding this new business model is hard for a traditional software incumbent, as this interview demonstrates.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. The way to getrich from a startup is to maximize the companys chances of succeeding,not to maximize the amount of stock you retain.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas. Business plan. business symbiosis. Email Integration. Domains.Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 20, 2010

At the Digital Media Conference West, Norwest Venture Partners’ Tim Chang stated “that in order [for an app] to do $10 million in revenues in the App store it must appear in the top 5 for 3 months.” Their latest round occurred in December 2009, and was $180 million dollars at a $1 billion valuation. PopCap Games raised $22.5

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Texas is embracing that as we see the impact of the internet being increasingly applied in Texas’ substantial industries of old: education, health, agriculture, real estate, energy, media, and more. Some large companies can bolster their position by buying out established technology and business models rather than creating them anew.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. In effect, this was the company’s MVP to prove out the core infrastructure.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. But it could also be a non-financial challenge, like being a social media company and facing attacks from multiple points of the political spectrum. This is why advertising is a really good business model.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

An unprecedented 80 private companies have raised financings at valuations over $1B in the last few years. The size of these companies’ private valuations may be similar to a traditional public company valuation, but that is where the similarities begin and end. Consider the case of Fab.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations.

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