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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups. Of course a group of 10 seed funds can’t fix the prices of a market. That was written in September 2008. The Laws of Supply & Demand.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

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The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. Let me explain: 1. It’s not black-and-white.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. Read more: PEHub. We had a nice debate. Other News: 1.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. It turned out that this drove even more demand for StrongMail. ► October (1) New Video!

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