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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

www.readwriteweb.com

Since most companies have little to no revenue, who else has already invested in the deal is heavily weighted to prove value. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. AngelList is a community.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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Playing Startup

View from Seed

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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Podcast Strategy: A Roadmap for Businesses

ConversionXL

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Podcast distribution. To support distribution, the show title should be unique, memorable, relevant, and, of course, keyword optimized. Let’s get started. . Podcasting as a marketing channel.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

What that meant is that six companies a year could achieve a hundred million in revenue or a billion in valuation. So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. In that case, if you want to pay yourself more than 150% of a market salary, we would consider that a distribution.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

However, the Mac community was also very vocal, with passionate fans of their platform, and is also important to note that this community had very little love for Microsoft. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue.

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