YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Michelli reveals the secrets and strategies that fueled Airbnb’s meteoric rise in his new book, “ The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging “ As he shows, Airbnb’s founders harnessed the power of design thinking and a firm belief in providing exceptional customer experience.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

When asked how he figured out who his target market was, he responded, “I looked at the volume of sales in my city, from the property valuation administrator, and then looked for the ‘sweet spot.’ Essentially, your reputation is your brand. Branding tip #1: Your reputation is all down to your relationships.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 13, 2020

Your virtual assistant should be designed to fit in with your brand, especially in terms of personality and language. Do your research into the different companies that can assist you with this and make doubly certain that you have partnered with one that is reputable and client centric. Ensure Brand Relevancy.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

So I began a complete re-design of the site with a high-end designer named Ryan Scherf, and I worked with a contract developer to have the new design applied to the existing 200 or so pages. I offered a bit more than I typically would given the scope, reputation, and press mentions of HitTail.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 26, 2011

You might think that "company valuation" refers, naturally, to how much your company is - you know - valued. Which terms really are standard for good reasons, which are standard for bad reasons, and which are just gotchas designed to skew the negotiation? But this kind of thinking will get you in trouble fast.

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Antidilution Term Sheet Silicon Valley Widget 148

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The cardinal sin of most architects is completely ignoring economic reality when designing floor layouts. Charlie is a frequent speaker on subjects relating to Restaurant Valuations and Opening a Restaurant and I am thrilled that he has generously participated in this article. Ensure Sufficient Two-Top Tables.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Status / reputation. Why You’re Going to Hire the Wrong Designer - Tony Wright dot com , September 14, 2010 “We are not UI experts but do know when we see a good design.&#. saw this on a mailing list I occasionally read, in a post where a company was looking to hire their first design employee/contractor. It’s simple.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

Another pointer is to how much the industry is ready for disruption is the trend of recent HR and Recruitment startups such as Zenefits which reached up to a valuation of a billion dollars after a few years. Even talent management software has a 17% annual compound growth rate and still growing! Thanks to John Linden, MirrorCoop ! #19-

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Another concept we need to introduce now is valuation. I say "in theory" because in early stageinvesting, valuations are voodoo. As a company gets more established,its valuation gets closer to an actual market value. As a company gets more established,its valuation gets closer to an actual market value. Better how?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2019

Yet few would have believed that problems could have brought down such a promising solution, as well as the reputation of the founder, despite a $9 billion valuation. For example, sometimes no amount of regression analysis is a substitute for a well-designed real world experiment with “big data” analysis.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Creating the right incentives and reputation system would lead to a directory people would be a part of. It has reputation. Just think of how valuable Craigslist would be if it had identity and reputation.). Our answer: a network.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The danger here is that you ruin your reputation. When designing forother people you have to be empirical. If you get an offer from a reputablefirm at a reasonable valuation with no unusually onerous terms,just take it and get on with building the company. [ So whats the minimum you need to launch?

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Startup Software Review Hiring Detroit 108

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Movie: "Make Better Software" is a 6 movie course designed to help you as you grow from a micro-ISV to a large software company. Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team?

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Elon Musk’s electric car maker saw its valuation grow to more than $60 billion last year, greater than that of General Motors in spite of selling 90% less cars! Tesla’s financials aren’t great, but both its capacity and reputation for breakthrough innovations has made it one of the most iconic and valuable companies in the world.

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Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Valuation Reputation 48

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Now that’s nothing to snicker over, especially considering that well-reputed and established firms could often have multiple overlapping funds. For them to see a 5x return the company needs to exit at a valuation of $500M. For a 10x return that exit valuation needs to be $1B!

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations. If the convertible debt has a " valuation cap " feature, the price at which the investors debt converts into shares has a maximum. The whole point is to provide a fast, easy form of financing that avoids wrestling over valuation.

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Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

As well as tripling the company’s valuation to $4 billion since January 2021, the round came as the company grew its monthly processing volumes by 5,000% in 18 months. The insights we gained from experiencing the B2B workflow firsthand helped us design a much more accurate solution.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc. For a blog that looks as simple as mine, I have already spent a ton of hours on the design. I consider this business endeavor as an overall success however.

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Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 78

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. Customer service.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). But I digress.

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