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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 So in our earliest stages we’re about 70% seed and 30% pre-seed. dot-com bonanza.

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How to Fund Your Startup Without Losing Control

Up and Running

Currently, most ecommerce businesses have IT staff constantly running manual tests to confirm that their site is operating properly, or they manually create expensive software to run these tests. Rich McIver is the founder of Northwest Web Marketing , an online consultancy that helps companies achieve their web marketing and technology goals.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment).

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How Investors Can Bring More Than Just Money To The Table

YoungUpstarts

For startup founders and CEO’s it’s also just as common to see them place too much focus on the amount of money raised, and the pre-money valuation, rather than the value that each investor can bring to the table. Operational Expertise. Getting you into better deals, and potentially on better terms.

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Another personal story: Timing is everything in a sale.

Berkonomics

The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. And yes, his partner had a valid suit, having been locked out of the web-design business and denied access to decisions and accounting information. How the industry was growing around the company.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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Don’t Pitch A Venture Capitalist Without This Checklist

David Teten

If you are testing the market to see what terms you can get, just say, “We are targeting to raise $X at pre-money valuation of $Y.” Almost all of the companies in which ff Venture Capital invests meet the criteria below: We primarily invest in early-stage web-based services companies with disruptive models.