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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Experienced entrepreneurs preserve equity – [link]. 65 Free Fonts for Graphic Designers – [link]. 35 Beautiful Brochure Designs – [link].

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And well they should be. And so on down then line. You know what I’m talking about. You feel it, too.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Startup Executive Compensation Scorecard

Altgate

We’ve designed this Scorecard and it’s currently being built, but in the meantime I wanted to get feedback from CEOs and VCs on the feature design. This not only gives an idea of the “cash-equity&# trade off for this company, but also how that trade off compares to peer companies. Bookmark the permalink.

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A brief history of founders and co-founders

The Equity Kicker

Accelerators have sprung to prominence since Y C was founded in 2005 because for the first time companies can do something meaningful with the small amounts of money they invest. Lots of great people will join a startup for 20-30% equity, or even less. I think that’s why having co-founders has become more important recently.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. Unless you’re a designer you’re going to outsource the graphical design work you have, but remember, you get what you pay for. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource. Bookmark the permalink.

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Seed and pre-seed – trends and definitions

The Equity Kicker

The first thing to happen was that the bar for a Series A went up – unsurprising given that startups could now get much further with pre-Series A amounts of capital (2005-2010). That created a gap in market which sub $100m dedicated seed funds (aka micro-VCs) stepped into – there are now over 300 of them (2005-2016).

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

“Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago. In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity.

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