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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react.

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6 Guidelines For How And When To Use Non-Disclosures

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). Yet I can assure you that people who are paranoid, or want to avoid all risks, won’t be happy as entrepreneurs, so it’s all about balancing the risk-reward scale.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. But this is still all about valuations and none of it is any fun anymore. Until we weren’t.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Tough Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

No matter how much you think you know about a situation, you will be surprised by the added insights you can get by asking questions of your team and other constituents. Treat every crisis as a long-term change flag. Focus on winning now, and creating a long-term edge. Engage frontline teams to decide on a solution.

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9 Strategies For Implementing An Innovative Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people believe that new ideas are the critical element of innovation, but in my experience as a mentor and investor, long-term business success is more about implementation than ideas. Over time, how you handle these becomes the culture that all team members learn to live with and drive your long-term vitality and success.

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How to Wisely Utilize Debt for Business Expansion

The Startup Magazine

Types of Debt for Business Expansion Long-Term Loans: Pros and Cons Long-term loans provide businesses with a lump sum of capital that is repaid over an extended period, typically several years. They offer flexibility for short-term expenses or help in unexpected opportunities.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

The pre-class assignment was to watch Safi’s video about Loonshots. Leaders across every service are pounding the table about innovation. Why that’s the case is a longer story, which I’ve written about, but the bottom line is that we need to design our organizations to solve that problem — the adoption problem.