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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. But we had a term sheet !!! I have 3 partners with whom I work really well and whom I respect.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. But we had a term sheet !!! I have 3 partners with whom I work really well and whom I respect.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. All of these are false.

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