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Building A Tech Startup: Avoiding Silicon Valley Mishaps

YoungUpstarts

If your company simply focuses on aggregating data without care for the end user’s privacy and national regulations start to exert pressure on unethical data processing your business may be doomed from the start. It could keep your startup afloat for a short while, but the long-term damage may be much worse than a cash flow problem.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

As a company grows, corporate leaders must become fixated on the stock price, internal politics and compliance. The winners would be the large technology platforms that aggregated and empowered these entrepreneurs — the losers would be the big, slow-moving brands. The end of corporate arrogance.

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10 Recommendations For Aspiring New Venture Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. In Silicon Valley, most boards ultimately make decisions based on a consensus. . “And if you have a valuation cap; a higher cap is always better than a lower cap.” ” The Cost of Financing. Patent Trolls.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Interesting to note that Hafner and English own common stock but also made meaningful investments in the Series A & B rounds.