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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

The reality is that seed investing as a strategy was not a new thing back in 2011, and one could point to multiple prior waves where this sort of investing just didn’t work. There is significant economic value that is available to seed funds in the mid-late stage financing rounds of their companies where they have pro-rata rights.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Waves suite of tools linclude Invoicing, Accounting, Payroll, Payments and more, plus Personal Finance Software, too. Scott pioneered many of the most utilized concepts in online media including opt-in data collection, email to postal data appending, affiliate marketing, web syndication, internet reality shows and internet pay per view.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 2011, our family was sitting around the dinner table brainstorming when our teenage daughter Mia had a great idea – starting a company that sells the best possible organic roasted seaweed in delicious flavors. When Carle Publishing was born in 2011, I needed a business name fast. 1- From our daughter. Photo Credit: Steve Broad.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. May 7, 2011 03:24:52 Reply 0 Flag this comment LarryN1 Follow A good profile for most if not all hires.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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The Importance of Robust Angel Ecosystems

VC Adventure

I’ve talked about this trend before – specifically the acceleration of angel investing in 2011-2014. I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home. I suspect that’s a bit of what we’re seeing here.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 Net Income: $1.00

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