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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Let’s review all of our existing investments. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Not just tech companies but industrials, too.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. Team must be purely technical.

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How To Test The Startup Lifestyle Before You Commit

Startup Professionals Musings

Founders stock, and stock options, will be worth nothing for the first several years, if not forever. Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Typically you can browse them by region or technology to find founders.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue.

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How to Invest in Startups – Indian Edition

The Startup Magazine

And with the technology available these days, it is convenient to invest in emerging startups. Of late, with the advent of new technology and the spread of the internet to nearly all corners of the country, Indians have taken up a new kind of shop! Some sectors where they have left their indelible mark are – Health tech.

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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

— of someone of my age and experience walking in here and demanding such outrageous compensation, someone who, let’s be clear, is technically too young to even enter into a legal consulting agreement in the first place. Maybe that means a big new advertising campaign, or hiring another WordPress expert for our staff.

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