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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. LibreDigital.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., Human Computer Interaction.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. Prime time. These so-called volunteer computing projects dealt with scientific research.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. It’s possible to outgrow other competitors who have a lot more funding than you.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Folksonomy.