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| | ASK THE VC JULY 30, 2011 Raouf: Should You Care About Your VC’s Investors? Firas Raouf from OpenView Partners has today’s VC Post of the day up titled Should You Care About Your VC’s Investors? In it he covers some fundamentals about how VC funds are structured and then lists three things that the nature of the LPs of a VC firm will tell you about that firm. High-quality LPs invest in high-quality VCs. | 47 HATS JULY 30, 2011 Weekend Ponderable: Eternal Truths Way back in 1981 I was pretty much at rock bottom. was working as a bicycle messenger in San Francisco, after wandering off the academic reservation. Up on the cheap plywood that the toilet at 444 Clementina was, at eye level if you were sitting down, some graffiti. was cold. was tired. was stunned. All the time, in all places, for all people, amen. | ASK THE VC JULY 30, 2011 Venture Deals: Chapter 4: Economic Terms of the Term Sheet We are now getting into the juicy stuff – economics of the deal. When discussing the economics of a VC deal, one often hears the question “What is the valuation?” In addition to defining and describing each terms, we give extensive examples in this chapter. Grab a beer – take your time – there’s a lot here. | | | | | | | |
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MARK BIRCH | SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 US Tech Jobs By the Numbers
To give some perspective on my last post on tech startups and the jobs gap in the US, could the tech industry actually produce enough jobs to fill the gap? Just how many tech jobs and over what period of time would we be talking about? The current jobs gap is currently 1.29 Total employed in software technology sector: 2.6 MORE >> -
SOFTWARECEO | SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 Looking for business broker
I run a software company that sells web-based sofware to small business and enterprises. We're bootstapped, profitable and have 2000+ customers. am considering selling my company to start a new venture, so I'm looking for business brokers with a successful track record in the software industry. Thank you! Read more]. M&A and Financing MORE >> -
MARK BIRCH | SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 Cold Beverage by G. Love & Special Sauce - I could use a few.
Cold Beverage by G. Love & Special Sauce - I could use a few today…perfect summer song. music MORE >> -
START UP BLOG | SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 The last industrial relic
You probably don’t know this but the office is a weird thing that only turned up when factories did. Sure Lawyers and accountants had them, but not in the corporate form they exist in today. The office was an addendum to where stuff got built. The strange thing is that, now we can work from home, the large majority of us still don’t. MORE >> -
MARK BIRCH | SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011  nycdigital: Registration has begun at the Reinvent NYC.GOV.
nycdigital : Registration has begun at the Reinvent NYC.GOV Hackathon! . It is awesome to see our city government take an active role in the NYC technology community. startup hackathon NYC government hackday innovation MORE >>
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- Business Model Analysis, Part 9: Outsourcing PLATFORMS AND NETWORKS | SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011
- BOEHNER DOWN, REID TO GO; SENATORS SLEEP WITH THE ENMITY; GDP NUMBERS IGNORED -- FOR NOW; NO TRIVIA AGAIN EIN NEWS | SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011
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