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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. Cumulative customers (unique buyers of Groupons): 15.8M (Q1 2011), 9.0M (2010), 0.4M (2009). in net revenue and passes $0.58 to the merchant.

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What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer

www.thedailymuse.com

by Rebecca Thorman — September 13, 2012 — No comments. It’s essential to make sure you take reasonable steps to control risk in your interactions with customers, suppliers, users, employees, and the general public. Establishing the ownership and equity rights of the company if there are multiple founders. Break Room.

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French Tax Law for Start-ups: Ringing the Alarm Bell

Cracking the Code

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

.   (“If we can close 35% of all opportunities, and can get an opportunity by making x contacts, and there are 300 opportunities per month, then we should be able to sell 100 customers per month if we have the capital ($35 per contact) to cover the market every month.”   This results in a five-year projection of XYZ.).

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How to Raise Money as a First Time Founder

The Next Web

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. In September of 2012, Zapier closed our seed investment round of $1.2MM. In May of 2012, I had no idea where to start when it came to raising money for a company or if I even wanted to raise money. It certainly did me.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #1: How to leverage advisors and investors as your extended team

Austin Startup

But I have put in hundreds of hours writing my blog, Lucky7, since 2012. This is called a “helper’s high” by my good friend and CEO coach, Kirk Dando (you can read more about Kirk and the value of CEO coaches in my Lucky7 post about the 7 lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO ). their customers?—?for