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Insuring Directors And Officers Through M&A And IPO Events

YoungUpstarts

As a result, D&O insurance responds largely to defense costs only, never paying the difference in stock prices. Retentions make insurance coverage more affordable by reducing the premium costs. These retentions, which typically cost insured businesses a minimum of $1 million to $1.5

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Is Winter coming for startups?

VC Cafe

If the product is something else and cannot produce software gross margins then it needs to be valued like other similar businesses with similar margins, but maybe at some premium to recognize the leverage it can get through software. Fred Wilson, AVC blog. What is Blitzscaling? Has anything changed since 2008?

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How to Raise Startup Capital for Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It is ironic, then, that you will need money to start making money, because starting a business typically means paying for office space, supplies, employees’ salaries, permits, and production, which can cost a lot of money. So, how do you raise startup capital? Here are a few ideas. Find Investors. Grow Your Money, Woman.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Everybody has known that for awhile, even without perusing a prospectus. Airbnb convinced travelers to part with 100% of their booking cost up front and then they pay out the required amount to hosts when the stay actually occurs. Additionally Airbnb charges both sides of the booking (guest & host) a separate service fee.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

Helmed by husband-and-wife team Stuart (Director of Sales and Marketing) and Emily (Managing Director, Board Chair, and Chief Ice Cream Inventor) Philips, during 2015 and 2016 Red Wagon is preparing for a big “regional-national” leap in production and distribution—in part by taking advantage of a new public investing program.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #19: Identify Website Goal [Economic] Values

Occam's Razor

Compute conversion for online, identify costs saved due to non-payment of bounty, identify goal value! Texas Instruments is a delightful company with amazing products. " Or "How much is someone watching an entire video for one of our products?" Let that sink in. Stunning, right? Couple more examples.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, I based myself in Toronto for a couple months over the summer there and did a product launch while I was there. THE POWER OF OUTSOURCING & CREATING YOUR OWN PRODUCT. I didn’t have a product of my own, and I spent a whole lot of time essentially wasting time. They love you already, so put a product out the door.”.