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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. If everybody is over-paying for early-to-mid stage deals you’d imagine that these all need to feed into a frenzied M&A and IPO market that will garner big returns for these risks investors are taking.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. More in Financing.

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Cracking The Code: New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn.

Cracking the Code

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

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Mega VC has focused on the challenges of the post-SarbOx IPO market in the US, and has discovered opportunity in offering larger amounts of growth capital ($10-100M+) to private companies with reduced access to public markets. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). and no, we didn’t.

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Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.

Cracking the Code

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Yahoo Finance. About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a global investment group with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Mumbai, and Tel Aviv. New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2). Laughing Out (c)Loud.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. Dont fall for it - its a trap. Great post!

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. It also is how they financed their entry into the United Nations. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

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