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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3 Israeli tech review Q3 2022, IVC Online and Bank Leumi.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting.

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What to do when you get screwed

The Startup Toolkit

First, some examples: A buddy of mine had done the hard work of finding two excellent tech cofounders. Another friend was thrown for a loop when his cofounder not only quit, but then actively poached the entire tech team to work for his new agency. Investors can delay until you’re desperate and then ratchet the terms.

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Thriving In A World Of Constant Change

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Success story features Q & A sessions with successful business leaders, keynote presentations, conversations on sales marketing. And then of course, who could forget the flux capacitor from the fictional piece of technology that allowed us to, time-travel why the word flux.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. Yes, you like hip-hop, “urban” clothing and “ ratchet television”, but all that sinks you deeper into stereotypes. Is that wrong? Does it hurt ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs? Is it human?

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

  When one studies the (admittedly highly technical) benefits of Series Seed vs. price debt, Series Seed is a better solution. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. If you need counsel to review these elegantly streamlined docs you shouldn't be doing angel deals in the first place.

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

Out of the Crisis #5 is a conversation with three people who pivoted their biotech company to help fight the coronavirus. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. I've also included a full transcript below. 2:16) Nadja Mannowetz on her background. (2:38)