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On Funding?—?Shots on Goal

Both Sides of the Table

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. I’ve definitely been wrong on market value.

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Ten million users is the new one million users

cdixon.org

Facebook’s market cap is about half of what most tech investors expected before the IPO. - It’s becoming increasingly common for early-stage consumer startups to do bridge financings (raising more money from past investors, usually on terms similar to the prior round) instead of Series As. -

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Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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The Basics of Small Business Loans [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

Hopefully I’ll be able to add some value with some of the financing needs that your businesses may need. As I’ve been working in this industry, as Sabrina started out said, I was the Chief Marketing officer of CAN Capital which is a big alternative lender and now I’m the Vice President of SmartBiz SBA Loans. Why is it hard to do that?

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The Option Pool Shuffle

venturehacks.com

As an example, let’s say all you really need is $2M, but there’s enough interest in the market to raise $5M — and ultimately they will be similarly dilutive. Given that many companies are doing convertible note bridge financings as their seed round, this seems to come up relatively often.