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Breaking The VC Business Model For Next-Gen Investors

YoungUpstarts

I like to think that our generation’s digital skills are replacing the startup’s traditional hunt for capital – all we need is a good idea, our team specs it out to make it sell, and we self-finance each company off its own cash flow. Five Mill has managed over $100 million in online marketing spend and over $3 million monthly.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) The more structured the effort of the 'distribution' people will be, the clearer the communication with design and technical people and the higher mutual respect/valuation. There is no cookie-cutter formula.