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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

So how do you use financial projections as valuation metrics when you know the odds of those being accurate predictors of the future are so very unreliable? For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5 And he added the cohort responsible for each, a nice touch.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

socalTECH

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. David Siemer: More generally, the M&A market is solid. which is still a premier market for the world.

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

socalTECH

We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn?

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.