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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. Frothy startup valuations.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. Imagine if you had build a few modules on top of Salesforce.com that made that product more effective?

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