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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. Also, it’s harder to pay a $30 million pre-money value on an unproved company when you see public companies with $100 million in sales trading for less than $20 million.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. If I use Invoca as an example: we handle tens of millions of phone calls for customers who want to drive sales calls into call centers. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. Why does that matter?

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing. We came to it, because we'd been around private equity, and it's always surprised me how inefficient the marketplace is.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in 2007. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well. Time will tell.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

A little background: 409A valuations are named for the section of Internal Revenue Code Section that created them in 2007. Do you see the overlap with the factors that come into play for equity valuations? Recent equity sales i.e., comparables. Comparables based on recent financings/exits. Strategic partnerships.

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JULY 10, 2010

Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. We discussed: 1. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. Plus, holiday e-commerce sales are widely expected to continue rising in 2015.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Yesterday was a Monday.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. In the beginning, when there is nothing, it’s easy to make promises or throw around equity. Positions range from sales, tech, producers, etc…. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Club Cooee uses a freemium service model, with the upsell focused on the sale of virtual goods. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. We'd like to see these options added in the future.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. It was 2007. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. It was 2007. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

It results in a lack of focus and diluted brand equity. It will help your company stay focused, it will build confidence in your entire organization (especially your sales/marketing team) and most importantly, your customers/users will think to go to you first. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

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