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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

TechCrunch LA

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Before that, I wrote about Stripe’s grand plans.

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Timing your exit – Don’t ride it over the top.

Berkonomics

In the previous six months, I’d read several articles in finance blogs or newsletters about yet another company that had just been financed in their specific vertical. In contrast, this local company had been built on something around $1 million in equity. Most of the financings I read about were for $5 million to $20 million.

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Xconomy Announces Channel Focused on the Future of Education

Xconomy

We’d like to offer a big thank you to our launch sponsors/underwriters who have joined us to support this new channel: the Lumina Foundation and Alexandria Real Estate Equities. All it takes is to go to the home page of the new channel or sign up for a dedicated e-mail newsletter. Agtech and Food, and Cybersecurity.

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Announcing Xconomy’s Agtech and Food Channel

Xconomy

We’d like to thank the launch sponsors/underwriters who have joined us to support this new channel: Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Michigan State University, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, and Spensa Technologies. All you have to do is go to the home page of the new channel , or sign up for a dedicated e-mail newsletter.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. Prior to Vator, Bambi was an award-winning columnist and correspondent at Dow Jones MarketWatch, where she had 400,000 subscribers to her newsletter. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. .

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Understanding How Dilution Affects You at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

And figuring out how much your equity may be worth over the course of a 5-year stint at a startup is even more complicated. His personal blog with some great example is here. And if you want more goodness like this don’t forget to sign up to my newsletter and follow Jess on Twitter. million or a gain of $1.1

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