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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

For example, $500,000 maximum value to each element yields either a maximum pre-money enterprise valuation of $$2 million or $2.5 For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5 million if all elements are “perfect” for a target in the eyes of the investor.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss.

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

socalTECH

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? What's the idea behind the site?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today?

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

socalTECH

A good example of what we do is, you can open a WAP browser on your phone and go to m.myspace.com, which is perfectly fiîe. Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. So it's a white label offering.

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Interview with Jeff Green, The Trade Desk

socalTECH

Can you give us some examples of the kinds of data you're using? Marketers use that data, for example, to only sell BMWs to those who can afford it and are their target customer. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005. Finally, how far along until you have product?