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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy. Finance where needed. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US.

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Episode 50: Video Content and Profitability with Seth David

Mike Michalowicz

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising.

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

One Big Thing could be ecommerce sales orders, the number of leads received, downloads of your product, sign up for trials, people volunteering to protest, donations to your church, new accounts opened for your new social network… anything. The difficulty in getting the numbers (bug Finance!)

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ProfessorVC: Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways

Professor VC

This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. This can make it much more difficult to get any bank financing, new investment, and trade credit. In cases where it is truly a bridge financing (i.e. Some will just shut down.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

Investment banks that last September seemed destined for bankruptcy are suddenly feeling flush and motivated to stimulate more business. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Seems an obvious fit.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. LPs, coinvestors, and press use these tools, so I work for free for these data vendors to make sure that their data about our activities is correct.