Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million for a social networking site 18 months ago. But he also used to opportunity to emphasize that he is full of stamina, works late and hard and had always performed well in his previous sales leadership roles for which he’s be happy to provide pay slips as proof. Your A round investors are not stepping up. - You raised $1.5

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Selling your business requires careful planning and strategizing in order to maximize the valuation and profit. This may involve notifying and mentioning key employees who could play roles in assuming leadership during the transition. . by Marla DiCarlo, co-owner and CEO of Raincatcher. Rely on a Business Broker.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link]. … Checking In on Foursquare’s Valuation – [link]. Just got acquired?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. billion.) (tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart. networking with other entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2019

Smith, CEO and co-founder of musical social network Smule; and Jeff Lawson, co-founder and CEO of Twilio; Janice Fraser, Chief Product Officer of Bionic; and David Binetti, creator of the Innovation Options valuation framework for accounting. I'm so glad to be able to bring their voices--and many others--to you.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

A few soundbites from the future: Leadership: It’s no longer about being king of the mountain, it’s about being center of the circle. Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

From the perspective of best practices, we will address questions such as: How to assess opportunities (idea, team, valuation). 8:30 Networking. She is also an adjunct professor, who taught a leadership course at Columbia Business School. Should you require a full-blown business plan and what to look for. 6:30 Registration.

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David Teten

APRIL 28, 2016

Since 2011, companies that originated at Flashpoint have raised more than $300 million and grown to a combined valuation of nearly $1 billion. Our tools and products will span the process of deep cultural assessment, recruitment of talent in the right roles, on-boarding, branding and leadership development. Community On Call.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Perhaps they have previous leadership experience at these companies or are still there today. The strength of their network is something you’ll want to confirm ahead of signing them on. You might consider starting with an offer to invest at a low valuation before discussing sweat equity. Never discount the power of a warm intro.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. Even critics of business school will generally acknowledge that attending a top-tier school helps the student build a strong personal network. But how strong is that business school network actually useful for entrepreneurs? Networks are both safety nets and trampolines.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. Even critics of business school will generally acknowledge that attending a top-tier school helps the student build a strong personal network. But how strong is that business school network actually useful for entrepreneurs? Networks are both safety nets and trampolines.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I’ve seen a few cases now where a number of very high-quality institutional investors were interested in investing in a company at valuation, but a non-institutional investor was willing to set terms 1.5 – 2X higher than that valuation. In a market like this, success and market leadership are very fleeting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

17:50] Is there a correlation between leadership inside of an industry by how digital it is? [19:02] And the model we had in mind, there's a book called Valuation, which our, our firm has had an updated every year for the past 20 years or more. 16:32] Are there organizations that are significantly behind in this rewiring ? [17:50]

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Outbound Squad, hosted by Jason Bay, and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. So we could go, we could spend the rest of our time talking about valuation.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 6, 2014

And while everything worked out, given that our valuation was based on profit margins it would have been smart to focus on profitability sooner. It was around this time when I started joining a few boards in town but I was doing that to help my business career (networking) vs. actually giving back in some way.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Why is it valuable?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. Leveraging the power of your customers’social networks to get viral growth where possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. were doing.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

Try the “soft sell” via networking. Networking is usually the number one tip for new entrepreneurs for good reason— networking allows you to pitch your startup in a less formal, more organic fashion. “If See Also: Do You Know How to Face Your Fears and Get Out to Network? Show results first. Follow through.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! This is a very useful valuation tool from AngelList (browse startup valuations) - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. One of the things a financing round brings is an opportunity to strengthen the startup’s overall network. It’s worth the additional effort to add more people – and their network – to the team.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network. not just the sale), and ultimately increase the valuation of your company and your ability to create jobs and realize your entrepreneurial dreams. Prior to Coremetrics, enterprise solutions like Accrue or Net.Genesis used log files or network packet-sniffers?—?and

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. I unexpectedly found that it was more helpful to think about the company valuation as an output variable in the fund-raising equation. The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. Investors had grown too used to the idea that any deal you funded would get marked up to a higher valuation in the next round and that’s clearly not always true.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. Dan has a B.A. with Honors) in Political Science and an M.A. Why is that?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

If you’re amazingly successful and are a billion dollar valuation then you can command more of their time and you can ask a bigger name and being local matters less. you can build that with your personal peer network. Otherwise, I value involvement over brand. Local means likely more time.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Elon Musk’s electric car maker saw its valuation grow to more than $60 billion last year, greater than that of General Motors in spite of selling 90% less cars! Cybersecurity firm Darktrace saw its valuation more than double in 2017 (from $400 million to $825 million) as it grew revenues by 80%+.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2018

We refer to B and C rounds as early growth – essentially financings with valuations between $50m and $300m pre-money. We’ve worked hard to have a network-centric view of the world. We think of ourselves as one node on a mesh network, an important node, but not a central node through which everything must flow.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Valuation: $1M – $3M. USV invests in companies that increase “ access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols ”. a16z’s Cultural Leadership Fund aims to “enable more young African-Americans to enter the technology industry.”. Check Size: $50K to $200K. No ideas or prototypes.

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