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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

The conventional wisdom finance professionals are often taught is that you should not pay a higher multiple today than what you’d expect to be paid upon exit — that is, your entry multiple should equal your exit multiple. Imagine there is a hot, bottoms-up $60M revenue B2B software company raising at a $4B valuation.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. So why Market Expertise? In other words, we market expertise.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.