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When Does Venture Debt Make Sense For Your Startup? - The Other Green Money

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Startup blogger and venture capitalist extraordinaire Fred Wilson recently published a great article on Venture Debt, which I strongly suggest you review HERE. As Fred points out, many entrepreneurs hear the word “debt” and promptly run the other direction. Enter venture debt. Venture Debt Tips And Tricks.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. What happened? So now our collective companies are worth less. The tide has gone out.

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Internet Connectivity Group Ups Funding To $8.2M

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According to the filing, the funding includes equity, debt, and warrants received since July of 2006. Tags: internet connectivity group venture capital wireless. Lake Forest-based Internet Connectivity Group , which is developing wireless equipment for connecting digital signage to the Internet, has now raised $8.2M

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. They also avoid Reg D. YOu should check it out. OTHER DEALS.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital. And well they should be.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. That might be debt, or public and private markets. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

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Events.com: Creating A New Events Management Software Giant, with Gregg Parise

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I think the youngest is probably Eventbrite, which was created in 2006. As you know, that company grew through lots of acquisitions, so they had a lot of technology debt. Ticketing and registration are starting to collide, and all those monopolistic playersthe Ticketmasters, Cvents, and Eventbriteswere all created 20 years ago.

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