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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Until we weren’t.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. 2007 was the watershed year. From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. You can find more ideas here: Product Pricing Strategies and Techniques Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From Should I Lower My Prices To Compete?

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation. Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Even for ISO’s, have you heard of form 83(b)? How about your Investors ?

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Reflect on the stage you’re investing at and be sure that you’re staying within the bands of your competency (and ergo not riding the spiral up to a level of incompetency). There is too much capital coming into tech investing. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?

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