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Three Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

YoungUpstarts

Here are three pieces of advice that are tossed around Silicon Valley as if they are gospel, but they are really Startup Myths. I don’t know exactly when it happened but at some point, Silicon Valley became obsessed with the word billion. My first institutional financing came from people who were in the “MIT” network.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

No you’re kind of f *d because nobody wants to buy any at all and your bank is calling you concerned that you may need to slow down your pace of new purchases for a bit. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. So when prices go down their first reaction is, “S**t.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. Number one is, a lot of companies need to actually educate their customers or their partners, and a lot of that has to happen online.