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How To Deal With Your Co Founder Leaving Your Startup 2bd00cb4e8877ee42582b5de1039f28269319b8e4b6a1032edce9bd8f1864db8

The Great Frustration

All entrepreneurs know the feeling: your vision is crystal clear, but potential investors don’t get it.  They ask small-minded questions. They niggle over details. They hem and haw as the weeks melt away your first-to-market advantage. It’s maddening! So, there are two things you can do after getting incredibly frustrated.  You can keep pounding your […]
Bob Rice
Bob Rice , MANAGING PARTNER , Tangent Capital
11 Nov 2011
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Investors: Avoid These Investment Event Problems

Many local angel investment groups work with a local event that creates the illusion of a business pitch contest, awarding investment to the winner. There are multiple benefits to this type of arrangement. The event generates local buzz. Local media cover it. Startups and investors discover each other, and the community wins because the event […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
11 Nov 2011
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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. But simply jumping in is not enough. Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
7 Nov 2011
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Valuations 101: The Cayenne Calculator

We recently started a series of posts on establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup companies for purposes of investment by seed and startup investors. The High Tech Startup Valuation Estimator is an online tool developed by Cayenne Consulting to assist entrepreneurs and investors in estimating the pre-money valuation of startup enterprises. This calculator uses 25 questions to […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
7 Nov 2011
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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps.  In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
4 Nov 2011
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