www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one. Basically, the kind of technical people you want for a startup — whip smart, adaptable, willing to work long hours for equity instead of cash and highly competent — that person is probably already out there, doing her own startup.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

has acquired Israeli face recognition technology developer Face.com for $100 million. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Facebook Inc.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Angel investments are highly risky and I would estimate that over 90% provide no return to equity investors. February 9, 2012 7:40 PM. February 11, 2012 11:00 PM. I'm curious as to your current thoughts on it, given the recent developments. April 12, 2012 11:10 AM. April 12, 2012 3:16 PM. ► 2012.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

February 2, 2012. 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. ==. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

March 18, 2012. While Twitter has acquired various client apps like TweetDeck, they let various 3rd party developers pursue the premium service revenue opportunity. Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. As you know, I started a company in 2012 focused on the question of open banking. Ultimately, I believe that the idea my collaborators and I developed turned out to be correct. Why is that?

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

By Tim Devaney and Tom Stein / April 23, 2012 09:30 AM / View Comments. But you can still reel in good people - if youre generous with your equity. Offer them a big chunk of equity, or theyll go to a company thats actually selling its products - and where half of 1% is more likely to one day be worth some real money. No problem.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. June 28, 2011 3:41 PM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. April 4, 2010 8:34 AM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

And now I know exactly where I want to spend my time" "This internship truly provide me an entry point into the private equity world. I'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Anonymizer raised a small amount of equity and was able to build a business that became very profitable. ► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Rather than home security, these guys are helping with our nations security. No comments: Post a Comment.

San Jose 28

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees. ► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? We typically invest at pre-money valuations between $1 - $5 million, with the sweet spot somewhere in the middle.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). ► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing.

San Jose 28

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. ► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). ► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Back to the survey. May 14, 2010 10:31 PM. Post a Comment.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. ► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? We drew $1.5 Newer Post.

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