David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. Founder retains control.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More social awareness print ads in the Social Media & Marketing section below. Why BYOA Is Killing Your Social Media Efforts – [link]. ” – [link]. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Otherwise you’re a stock picker, which in this business isn’t a good thing. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.

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Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Otherwise you’re a stock picker, which in this business isn’t a good thing. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.

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Early Stage Deal Flow Investment Bankers Technical Review 361

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

6- Social media. Your social media presence is essentially your “modern day business card”. Technology and the applications of social media is changing modern day entrepreneurship and the way business is conducted. Ever since social media was introduced into our lives, it has completely revolutionized the business world.

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Technical Review Technology Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 50

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Many people who want to start a business believe they will be able to get grants or loans to help them finance the venture. Listen with an open mind to employees, suppliers, customers, the media and members of the community. Listen with an open mind to employees, suppliers, customers, the media and members of the community.

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

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IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 180

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. In the past few years, hundreds of small companies have been snatched up by private equity firms willing to agree to ever-rising valuations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2013

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. High valuation, low profit. Social media darling Twitter is the most fragile of these bubbles. Overconfidence.

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Babbling VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

OK, hands up, who's truly surprised by the drop in the stock markets or the postponed tech IPO's or even the upcoming slowdown in venture financing? It's about to get rough out there and I am not even alluding to valuations. No really, who is surprised? If you said yes, stick your head back in the sand. What is the reality now?

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Germany Stock IPO Valuation 76

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tech/Media. This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations. Many if not most seed investments in startups these days are done in the form of convertible debt, which is a loan that can convert to equity in a subsequent financing. Remember me. Forgot username or password? Login with Twitter.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. question in venture capital. It is intentional.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. I often take stock in lieu of cash. I have a file drawer full of worthless stock certificates and I continue to add to it. Not all start-up stock is created equally. what kind of stock you are getting. what kind of stock you are getting.

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Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

IPO 100

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

What I want to talk about today is one of the insider baseball discussions of our industry this past week: The odd fact of the $500 million financing round completed just before the company sold for a B. Did raising money at a $500 million valuation help secure the $1 billion deal? “Impending” valuation.

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Valuation Balance Sheet Dilution Term Sheet 316

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The stock was very well received, jumping 25% on its first day of trading. Today, the stock is still up 22% and the company is trading at a very healthy 4.2 Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. anecdotes.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

The second strategy is Value Investing , a strategy which “seeks to maximize returns by finding stocks that are undervalued by the market…Investors assess a stock’s intrinsic value…and compare that value with the stock price. than comparable companies in the same sector that raised at a higher valuation.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2011

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. High valuation, low profit. Social media darling Twitter is the most fragile of these bubbles. Overconfidence.

Startup 225

Startup Demand Green Government 225

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Keep the valuations consistent with company progress. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. The bottom line is that the pedigree of your investors will have much to do with your ultimate valuation and with your enjoyment of the startup experience.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. He runs a hedge fund focused on consumers and industrial stock. In 2018, Live Current Media bought it for $5 million. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. She was a sophomore student at Stanford University at the time.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 142

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Twitter Is A Media Business. Despite it’s long-standing protestations, Twitter is indeed a media company. If Pinterest and SnapChat turn out to be big businesses, they’ll be media-based businesses.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

Tech stocks blew expectations out of the water in 2017, outpacing the S&P 500 by 21 percentage points. While 2017 certainly marked an exceptional year for tech stocks, it was also a harbinger of things to come. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce were all reportedly interested in acquiring the office communication platform.

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Merger Acquisition Stock Valuation 70

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. easy business finance software. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure. Amazon Web Services. Startup Threads.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You’d probably go for one of the titans of technology who dominate the business media: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, to name a few. Lately, we’ve seen startups able to reach a billion-dollar valuation, so-called “unicorn” companies, in the limelight.

Startup 182

Startup Acquisition Portfolio Venture Capital 182

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

As you can see, despite the strong recovery in stock value, the productivity has declined sharply in the past quarter and the figures do not show at this point that the bottom has been reached. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 48

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Here is the short list for your 2007 travel time: Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing: My daily starter - a five minutes overview of the latest technology news and trends plus a rundown on technology stocks on the move MarketWatch Morning Stock Talk : A 5mn snapshot of how the stock market is doing CNET Daily Tech News : The daily news from CNET.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Of course you did – it’s all the mainstream media could seem to write about last week after the now infamous twitter tweet about it. Financing ipo JOBS Act s-1 sec twitter' We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.

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SEC IPO Investment Bankers Valuation 142

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. Case in point, Procore just went public and is trading at an $11 billion valuation. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. sold to Disney for $670 million and since our first investment was at < $10 million valuation we did quite well.

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Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

hurry up, the retailers are out of stock! Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. Get your own helicopter for $50! and you can also make it fly on AirWolf tune. Our office is full of them! Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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