A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 16, 2010

The real reason they're pissed is that VCs are increasingly unnecessary to get companies started , both because of inexpensive technology and marketing channels and because there are enough angel investors that founders don't have to sell the entire farm for ridiculous amounts of cash they don't really need.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Tags: How-To exit-strategy finance inspiration investment planning.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 27, 2011

Or what if we have another stock market collapse or if they shoot down a plane over California? ME: Sure, but maybe that competitor would further validate and grow the market, which could increase your sales and make you even more attractive to a buyer! HIM: When you put it that way seems like I should just take the money.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

This article assumes we’re talking about a volatile industry like software or emerging markets where almost nothing is “well-known&# and company trajectories are all over the map.). To control a market. but this is flat wrong , as the failure of the Rules of Multiples demonstrates. Control equals money.

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