Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. The link for the video is here and if you want a short firsthand view on our changes it’s a great resource. A brand is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s something you must earn over time by living up to the name you define.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. If you know you’re building a flash-in-the-pan, like a cool mobile app, than that’s fun too of course! And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. And it is magic.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. Fundamentally, we share the common concern that many of the new “Ecommerce 2.0”

eCommerce 62

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Xiaoice : Then you want a flash marriage? Human : It’s not a flash marriage for we have fallen into love for more than one year. Xiaoice : It is a flash marriage. Human : Is it Ok? Xiaoice : It may be not Ok. Human : Well, you are stupid. Well, I think he is not that into you.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 9, 2014

A friend of mine headed up their UK operations for a while, so I also knew that they were second to none in their use of data to drive a personalised flash sales shopping service to their customers and that their scale has allowed them to deliver an amazing level of personalisation.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2014

and ‘scale ecommerce’ – that is selling third party brands and taking stock, and identifies four strategies for ecommerce ‘David’s’ who want to take on the ‘Goliath’: Proprietary pricing – e.g. flash sales companies like Zulily and One Kings Lane.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. Brainscape.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Hungary probably wouldn’t sell their sovereignty and entire economy for 1x sales, but Apple has no debt so they could probably lever the deal and borrow money on top of $137 billion in equity. Semi, flash memory company Anobit, and security hardware – Authentec) to be integrated in various iStuff.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2015

As mother-son co-founders, we also share a responsibility to family that supersedes all matters of equity ego and power. As mother and son, there is no “breaking up” – blood can’t be erased and rewritten over like a flash drive. We don’t have to do verbal gymnastics with corporate-speak and niceties to make a point.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Keep in mind that any cash you put in will remain in the company as Founders’ Equity, and will only come back to you on a successful exit in which your investors make money. [3a. There are excellent venture lawyers in every major city, with enough to form a flash mob in places like California, New York and Texas. ” 10.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 12, 2015

when Stuart Buttefield switched from the failed flash game Glitch to Slack) whereas Steve Blank defines a pivot as a smaller iteration of a business model or idea (e.g. a change of channel or customer segment).

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

Following that derivative ecommerce business models have become popular, predominantly flash sales and subscription business models, and these in turn have seen successful trailblazers like Vente Privee and Lovefilm followed by second generation players in other verticals and geographies – like Graze and Sports Pursuit from our portfolio.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions. Private equity investing is a relationship business. A family-run company that hires an outside CEO is flashing a signal that the firm may welcome an outside investor.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. I emphasize my focus here is organizations which are backing for-profit companies and do not take equity. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc.

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Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

IPO market and simply dismiss the American equity markets for emerging growth companies today as “no longer engineered for brokers & bankers to make money via flipping over-valued startups to retail investors via institutional cronies” (from Paul Kedrosky’s blog). And then there are those who look at the broken U.S.

Delaware 37

Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. MyGengo.com and Tolingo.de. 24h turnaround and a great service. Total cost: $100. Hosting: pay-as-you-go cloud servers, mostly free in the beginning. Debug/usability: UserTesting and $100. Total: $8,350.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The question itself didnt attempt to ask whether equity or salary was preferred. Another respondent told me personally he would only consider joining up if he got equity. They hated it when non-technical people wanted more equity just because they came up with the idea. Many try to get me to be a partner and offer me equity.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2020

Such businesses will likely emerge as leaders that will help prepare for the “next big issue” due to their flash-in-the-pan revenues and quick notoriety. In addition, frugal corporate and personal trends in the last recession, fueled the the founding of both Groupon and Uber.

Startup 120

Startup SEO Private Equity Venture Capital 120

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Theyre not entirely without use or benefit, but like Lisp, Flash or Silverlight, theyre often not the best choice. Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 18, 2018

’ Luke flashed a goofy gang sign, where his fingers kinda made the shape of a B-T-C, the abbreviation for bitcoin.” Maybe residential real estate will no longer be an appreciating asset as millennials invest in other more liquid, higher volatility areas (private company equity, crypto).

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Massachusetts Flash California Equity 79

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. On your site make sure you really think through heavy use of flash (not that you should not, just think it through) and javascript encoded links (robots don't execute javascript) and other such things.

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Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Based on the, what's called the "diffraction pattern," you can infer the structure of the protein and if it's a larger protein, you use what's called, "cryo-EM" on where you flash freeze it and then put it under an electron microscope, and from there use these advanced software techniques to infer the three-dimensional structure of something larger.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

One of the bright flashing warning signs that a VC will be a weak board member is when that person says, “We VCs are pattern matchers.” For example, how much equity should the company grant to its employees, including its managers? Board members can and should provide feedback and advice, but in a self-aware and constructive manner.

Startup 36

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). TechCrunch article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Doesn't it feel like in a crisis suddenly the world flashes before your eyes and you see what is truly important? We didn't want people not having their equity. We didn't want people not having equity out the door. And I think this is a very defining hour for all of us really. We got everyone to their next vest.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

XtremeIO is a maker of flash memory storage technology, and will now become an R&D unit of EMC. billion in venture capital and private equity funds. EMC BUYS XTREMIO FOR $450M. EMC, the US firm whose software is used by companies to analyze their databases, has paid $450m to buy Israeli start-up XtremeIO.

San Francisco 90

San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. BrainsToVentures AG; Israel Cleantech Ventures Buyer Funds: b-to-v Private Equity S.C.S. TASE:MAYN). Jan-29-2010.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Just go to a meetup or post an ad promising equity. Since it's an HTML / flash based mockup, they can "play" with it and get an idea of what you are trying to do. This person does not exist.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

an Israeli provider of flash caching and virtualization software and hardware. The company transforms storage access in virtualized environments with NAND flash, allowing data centers to fully leverage their flash based storage investments, extending the lifespan of the storage infrastructure and maximizing efficiency. .

Flash 94

Flash Private Placement Los Angeles 94

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Retargeting is more than flashing up images of previously viewed products. In this ad, Adidas builds brand equity by working with influencers: ( Image source ). Using the Facebook Pixel, you can target cart abandonment and capitalize on impulse purchases, or update past customers about new products they’d love.

eCommerce 102

eCommerce Audience Differentiation Campaign 102

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

an Israeli provider of flash caching and virtualization software and hardware. The company transforms storage access in virtualized environments with NAND flash, allowing data centers to fully leverage their flash based storage investments, extending the lifespan of the storage infrastructure and maximizing efficiency. .

Flash 60

Flash Private Placement Los Angeles 60

Pascal's View

OCTOBER 22, 2009

High frequency trading, dark pools, and flash orders – unknown to most Americans a few short months ago – have now joined the American lexicon. As a nation, our credit and equity markets should be a crown jewel. I have re-printed it in its entirety and urge you to read it below: Preventing a horror movie ending in the US markets.

Equity 28

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission Delaware Technical Review 28

Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Pinterest is a constant river of pictures, and mostly very high quality pictures, undistracted by ad text or flashing lights. The fact that they have waited this long to monetize in this way and have built such great brand equity is quite encouraging. Billions of dollars will be diverted from other ad channels to Pinterest.

PHP 20

PHP Advertising Flash Affiliate 20

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The biggest mistake you can make is hiring someone that creates your site in (lets say) Adobe Fireworks or Flash and then you try to hire someone else to change it (because the original guy is nowhere to be found)and you find that no one but him can make changes because the original file that makes the web page is needed. Insightful.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Argonaut Private Equity.

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