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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3 Israeli tech review Q3 2022, IVC Online and Bank Leumi.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. Sure, it seems efficient.

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What To Do When Your Trusted Employees Defect To The Competition

YoungUpstarts

But even worse than the cost of recruiting someone new to fill the vacancy when a key employee leaves, there’s one big, looming worry that’s sure to ratchet your anxiety up to critical levels: “She knows everything!” Like it or not, employee mobility has just become a fact of life.

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

Tim Keane

  It is very expensive if you’re the entrepreneur since it doubles the cost to the company of paying dividends to the entrepreneur.   A full ratchet anti-dilution clause is very unfriendly to entrepreneurs; it requires them to make up the entire difference in price from their own holdings.

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

  With Series Seed: ·    Costs should be roughly the same (if not cheaper) than using industry standard debt documents.  In sum, Series Seed creates a level playing field between capped debt and equity documents in terms of speed and cost.    This is EXACTLY why I created the Series Seed Documents. 

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Episode 2: Business Planning, Content Marketing, and 3D Printing – The Bcast

Up and Running

Other links: The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future is Now (HBR), Space Station Builds 3D-Printed Ratchet Wrench (NASA), Shapeways.com (3D printing marketplace). In addition to that top line revenue, you’re also going to have your major expenses, you’re going to have your costs, those kinds of things. Peter: Okay.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money. Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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