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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. I’ve written about this before, but it’s a mysterious subject, and I’m always learning more.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. I’ve written about this before, but it’s a mysterious subject, and I’m always learning more.

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. I’ve written about this before, but it’s a mysterious subject, and I’m always learning more.

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Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s New CEO

Tech Zulu Event

She is expected to champion for new products and advance its web technology. in Computer Science from Stanford University, she specialized in artificial intelligence in both her degrees and has several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design credited to her. as CEO and Member of the Board of Directors. Mail ,Yahoo!

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

A web telephony pioneer and serial entrepreneur, Burr will oversee sales and marketing while expanding the range of clients served and building vendor, partner and investor relationships, according to CallFire CEO and Co-Founder Dinesh Ravishanker.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). ”).

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.