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What Are We Talking About When We Talk Valuation?

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A little background: 409A valuations are named for the section of Internal Revenue Code Section that created them in 2007. evidenced by a written report that takes into account the relevant factors prescribed for valuations generally under these regulations.”. What impacts a company’s 409A valuation: Company milestones.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Step 5: Formal in-house reporting. Once the product features (and thus the user flows) are sufficiently mature to invest in this area, then it makes sense to formalize out the reports. How many reports should you generate? Reports are too slow! If you’re lucky, eventually your reports will be too slow.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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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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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"