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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. An example was that while we were in the seed round at Ring and followed in the A, B, C and D … we were also able to lean into the E round when Jamie really wanted to scale up his funding and the final check was still > 420% IRR! Over the past 2.5

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

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Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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What Are We Talking About When We Talk Valuation?

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For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. A little background: 409A valuations are named for the section of Internal Revenue Code Section that created them in 2007. The industry’s competitive dynamics.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 crawl.baidu.com";}. to 65.55.255.255 (131.107.0.0

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: user_id, event_name, value, datetime. For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Make sense?

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