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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. In a world when LPs benchmark VC performance on a 3-year time horizon from deploying one’s fund (is your 2019 fund in the top quartile!!??) billion fund.

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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

To keep you out of this statistic, I recommend the following steps to all aspiring business owners as they step into this new and exciting world of managing your own business: Solidify your funding plan before you start spending. The remainder use outside funding, including crowdfunding, friends and family, banks, and investors.

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8 Indicators Of The Innovation Focus In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Sustained executive sponsorship with funding. Here we see the first early-stage corporate governance of innovation, with funding and processes for innovation as separate activities from business as usual. Maturing proficiency with innovation metrics. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/10/2023