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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

Taking Corporate Venture Money: When it Makes Sense “PayPal took on these investors in small part because it gave us an imprimatur in the stodgy and regulated world of financial services. Hiring Your Team. ” (Lee Hower). ” (Rob Go). ” (Melody Koh). ” (David Beisel). ” (Melody Koh).

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

The Aqui-hire Business. And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. It says if you want to make “real” money - quit. Get some famous angel or seed money. (Chief Vesting Officers)?

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

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Mint is the best way to manage your money. Go there now » Sign up or log in to mint.com Updates Drop Your Debt to Win 2 comments How To The Top 5 Customer Complaint Letters — And What You Can Learn From Them 5 comments Investing In Graphics: What Is a Stock? 2 comments Mint Life Know your money. Live your life.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 9 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He proposed funding the construction of 20 more prototypes in different models, hiring an engineer to think about manufacturing, putting the videos online to get it viral, and then seeing what happened. The founder, David Cox, used to give computer classes at a Mac store and noted that many of his customers were over 50 years old.

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Take Five – how shut are the venture markets right now?

VC Cafe

According to new research by Pitchbook , the trickle down effect has already started in seed and series A startups with round sizes and valuations shrinking in size compared to 2021. But recently those round sizes and valuations have tumbled to about $10 million and $50 million, respectively, he said.

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In VC deals, Price Doesn't Matter - But The "Promote" Does

Seeing Both Sides

This pre-money valuation is own known in shorthand as “the pre” and you will hear entrepreneurs and VCs discussing other company finances using this term (“You were able to raise money at a $9 pre? I had to struggle to get to $6 pre and I have a prototype and real customers! Life isn’t fair.”).

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.