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Comparing Startup Accelerators

Austin Startup

Re: cash, the more “unbundled” types of accelerators (less formalized, less equity) tend to not provide any cash upfront, but also typically “cost” less in equity, often just 1–2% of your fully diluted capitalization. Anti-Dilution. See: Startup Accelerator Anti-Dilution Provisions; The Fine Print.

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How Hashtags Can Supercharge Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

For example, if a person clicks on the hashtag #purplemarkers, they’ll typically see a page that aggregates all content with the same hashtag. Niche hashtags for existing communities, fields and industries are great choices. Some social media platforms allow people to follow hashtags.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

price based anti-dilution). As expected, that deal took a bit longer than it would have had the Company raised a vanilla Series A to begin with (and subsequently raised a Series B) but the aggregate fees for the two transactions were still less than the standard Series A followed by a Series B. Second, they are simple.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Outcomes: Task Completion Rate (split by Primary Purpose, and Direct vs. Community support) | System Updates (Drivers, Diagnostics etc.) The very best analysts focus, when most will tend to gather.

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Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate

Venture Chronicles

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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How Hashtags Can Help You Improve Your Small Business Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

For example, if a person clicks on the hashtag #purplemarkers, they’ll typically see a page that aggregates all content with the same hashtag. Niche hashtags for existing communities, fields and industries are great choices. Hashtags originated on Twitter. how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. Niche Hashtags.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. It will also minimize future dilution. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall. ” Go public.

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