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An Entrepreneur’s Journey Towards World Domination Begins With Achieving Key Milestones

YoungUpstarts

What’s critical for entrepreneurs to understand is that valuations for startups do not increase at a linear rate; they increase geometrically based on achieving the right milestones. The best entrepreneurs raise enough money to achieve a set of interim milestones and then raise capital again at a significantly increased valuation.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. 90 Things I’ve Learned Founding 4 Tech Companies: Find your company’s One Thing. ?? Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. So, here goes. It’s that important.

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How does someone get a meeting with angel investor David S. Rose?

Gust

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. Now comes the really tricky part: getting me to review all that stuff you just neatly uploaded.

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

A sponsorship strategy should cover five areas: Assets Audience data Asset valuation Activations Market identification. This will help sponsors quickly identify if your audience matches their target market. However, matching demographics alone doesn’t guarantee ROI. Asset valuation. Start with demographic data.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. A Comparison Between Today’s “Bubble” and the Last Tech Bubble. Since so many distinguished people report a broad variety of qualitative bubble signs, let’s attempt to pattern match the quantitative data. Are the prognosticators correct? I don’t think so.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Knowing this venture firms have come up with a canonical checklist of what they would like to see.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.