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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

It also feels very wiki like. At an $86 million, pre-money valuation Benchmark sure did pay up for this investment. But the power is that if a question is asked and it pushed into the appropriate topic areas then it will pass in front of people who want to answer that topic. I saw some questions where the tags looked wrong.

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Notion the all in one workplace scratchpad

VC Cafe

Pitchbook shows that Notion has a post money valuation of $800M, making Notion a fast unicorn from the time of funding. The riynd was led by First Round Capital, joined by several other star investors including Josh Kopelman, Shana Fisher, Naval Ravikant, Aydin Senkut, Elad Gil and Mike Vernal. First Round was.

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Startup Tools

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Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

The law of large numbers (of customers) says you cant help but make at least some money - your valuation is determined by how well you monetize the tidal wave of growth. The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors.

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Examples of good startup term sheets

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I did a short video at BothSidesoftheTable th at talks about the key terms in the term sheet you need to know about AND how VCs calculate valuation differently than entrepreneurs and what to look out for. Would be great if the wiki idea could work in creating a standard form term sheet. Florian Feder , I'm a lawyer at a bank.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Most important slide: valuation Promising results Key questions: can you monetize that traffic? (or Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. With that disclaimer out of the way, heres how I order the hierarchy of pitches: Printing money Key questions: are those numbers real?