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Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants?

Both Sides of the Table

the economic benefits to BigCo never warrant all of the time and effort they put into getting a stake in your company and trying to make that stake worth money. So Plan B for many BigCo’s is to take “performance-based warrants.&# The following is a guide to what these are, whether to offer them and how to structure them.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. That channel giveth and then taketh away so you had millions of users who had not grown accustomed to the feature set of Viddy and thus didn’t stick around.

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Nine Keys To A Winning Startup Channel Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

For that, you need to implement a winning distribution channel strategy. Common channel strategies include direct to customer, distributor, and joint venture arrangements. For many markets these days, the channel owns the market. Evolve the channel strategy as you grow. Deal with channel conflict openly.

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Founder and CEO Revolutionize the Breastfeeding World Through her Company

Hearpreneur

Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel. Sablotsky continued her professional career as Vice-President of Portfolio Development for Jacobs Investments, LLC.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

Both Sides of the Table

If I’m interested I get to spend more time with them, if I’m not I don’t have to – A few companies per month come in that have fascinating business ideas that warrant my spending more time trying to understand their people, company, technology and market. I work hard, don’t get me wrong. We travel together.

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Beware of Premature Merge Elation

Both Sides of the Table

My recommendation to our lead partner looking at the deal, “Pass. We said it was like two people who couldn’t swim across the English Channel (21 miles) putting their arms around each other and trying to swim across together. He had an ad-supported business doing about 1.5 million uniques. He’s talented.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

Breonna Taylor : Shortly after midnight on March 13, Louisville police, executing a search warrant, used a battering ram to crash into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency room technician. Please feel free to ping us in this channel if you have any questions. That is true now.

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