VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

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SBA Affiliate Los Angeles Cap Table 79

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

of Washington. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Ken Nisbet. Jim Roberts. Steve Seitz. Boston Events ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The business side chronicles which startups locked down financing rounds, who are providing them, and what the money is earmarked to do. It was created in a joint effort with the Washington Post. Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action.

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PR Startup Social Media Silicon Valley 107

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. (Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.)

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Speaking of angel investment data, the Kauffman Foundation funded a paper on Returns to Angel Investors in Groups written by Robert Wiltbank at Willamette University and Warren Boeker at University of Washington.

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

As the term implies, “crowdfunding” is funding from a crowd of people – i.e., many people provide small amounts of money to finance something. Moreover, in typical Washington D.C. What is Crowdfunding?

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SEC Security Accredited Investor Social Network 65