Cofounder IP Sales Valuation 
YoungUpstarts
MAY 29, 2011
The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. However, this does not mean that investors don’t have a significant effect on valuations and M&A). Solo founders take 3.6x
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.
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Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 8, 2023
Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Valuations. As The Information proclaims, “ Unicorn Fire Sales Ahead.”
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. Morgan Stanley had proposed a higher valuation to let them in. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. Yes, this was stupid. Any deal.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. I’ve learned this first hand from Mark Gerson, the founder of Gerson Lehrman Group. Patented Technology?
mashable.com
OCTOBER 16, 2010
All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.
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