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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic.

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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

Both Sides of the Table

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Travel Tech Company Stay22 Raises $750K As Event Travel Industry Calls for Change

ReadWriteStart

The company’s growth is largely thanks to its collaborators – Travelport, its first investor and incubator, lead investor 7 Gate Ventures, and Real Venture. Recent funding is being used to develop its product using predictive booking pattern algorithms and to expand its sales and development teams.

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Series A Startup CEO Salary

The Startup Lawyer

Earlier this year, this issue presented itself when a client was the lead investor in a Series A round of about $2MM at a $4MM pre-money. The term sheet was pretty much a done deal, when the startup’s CEO demanded a salary of $25,000. Not all startup founders understand this tenet. Case Study.

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Proud to Lead an Investment in SeedCX

This is going to be BIG.

Some on demand companies, given worker classification issues, seem potentially more challenged to make their economics work given new rulings. Some, like Uber and AngelList, have seemingly gotten over the hump on it. Others, like Aereo, have gotten crushed by it.

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Finding your One Metric That Matters

leananalyticsbook.com

Reddit probably has a very high percentage of users who log in: it’s required to upvote posts, and the login process doesn’t demand an email confirmation look, so anonymous accounts are permitted. Later, many of these KPIs become accounting inputs—stuff like sales, margins, and so on. What makes a good metric?

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StoredIQ Adds $10M To The Coffers

Austin Startup

StoredIQ , a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management solutions for eDiscovery, records and compliance management, today announced that it has closed $10 million in new investment financing and expanded its management team in preparation for accelerated growth.