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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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VC Optimism Returning But More Pain Ahead In Their Portfolios

Hunter Walker

Satya and I were having lunch (yummy Chinese food) with our LPAC and the conversation turned to generally “how much more did venture portfolios have to fall before they found their true current value?” ” That is, for the class of funds institutional LPs tend to back, on average, where was bottom? Valuations.

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How to Segment A/B Test Results to Find Gold

ConversionXL

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. This is especially true of big businesses: Chad Sanderson, Subway.

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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. Starting a new hashtag and helping it grow requires more work than simply taking part in a larger conversation that is enjoying a moment of popularity. Trending Hashtags.

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WHAT ARE SUPER PRO RATA RIGHTS?

Scott Edward Walker

For example, if an investor owns 20% of the equity of a startup on a fully-diluted basis following the closing of a Series A round, it will have the right to purchase 20% of the shares of the preferred stock issued in the subsequent Series B round.

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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. Starting a new hashtag and helping it grow requires more work than simply taking part in a larger conversation that is enjoying a moment of popularity. Hashtags originated on Twitter.

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Building Convertible Debt into the Premoney Valuation

ithacaVC

62,000 of convertible debt outstanding with $13,700 of aggregate interest accumulated, which also converts as well in the qualifying round. And let’s assume that the debt has a 20% conversion discount. Granted, that is not much dilution, BUT what if there were like $600K of convertible debt instead of $62K.