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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

In summary: Snap’s current business doesn’t justify a $20B valuation. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap? The product that could most likely justify Snap’s $20B valuation is Spectacles. But if it can’t, it’s going to take Snap a long time to the achieve financial performance necessary to sustain a $20B+ valuation.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Flexible VC offers you this. Flexible VC: Compensation-based.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut. It seems that Telegram’s best shot at monetization was a $1B nixed ICO.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). IP Location Tools. Open X (Open source Ad server).

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker. 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker. 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Sets the valuation at the time of the investment. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. I'm interested to know why you didn't choose a convertible note structure. Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM.

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