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APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create. He is the majority owner.

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

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JUNE 13, 2018

If your teaser deck was 8–12 pages it would likely include: team market problem why your solution solves this problem progress to date (funding, team, customers, revenue if significant) TAM (market sizing / why this will be valuable) Your “meeting deck” should just be an expansion of what was in your teaser deck. Compelling.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Revenue multiple? How will you price the next round? Your A round? Him: On metrics. We’ll have some proof points by then. What proof points? How will the lead determine a value? EBITDA multiple? Cashflow projections? I’m not sure. Lawyers don’t make money on your seed round in any instance. A few M&A transactions.

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JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Company generates revenue via premium accounts, targeted ads and transaction commission. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. students. -Is

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Sure, the revenue & margin will be significantly lower than traditional TV. Most won’t be of the quality that you want but you now have tons of material and inspiration for your show and you own all of the submitted IP. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins.

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APRIL 27, 2010

and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. I learned about revenue recognition. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m I was loyal to this group of people and still am.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Everyone has their own definition of momentum (user numbers, revenue, channel partners, biz dev deals, whatever). What about Product / IP? But if you identify investors with whom you’d like to work here’s my advice: 1. Momentum - The number one thing that investors get their checkbooks out is for momentum. It’s a P.

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MAY 5, 2011

A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. They’re doing stuff – just not enough. Seattle has its patrons. The neurons aren’t connecting to the startups. Elder Statesmen.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. But think about what you really care about in deals.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). non-mobile).

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