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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

SoCal CTO

The reality is that an early employee in a pre-funded startup that eventually raises a few rounds of capital will be diluted significantly, is down the line in preference, and will likely be locked up for a while to harvest it. And that's assuming that it's a fairly positive outcome.

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Shortening The Small Business Software Selection Process

YoungUpstarts

. - RightSignature : Electronic signature software. - HubSpot : Provider of inbound marketing software. - Act-On : Cloud-based integrated marketing platform. - dotmailer : Email marketing software. - Harvest : Time tracking and invoicing. - Google Analytics : Web analytics tool for your website. Some of these platforms are free (e.g.

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Valuations 101: The Venture Capital Method

Gust

The concept is simply…since: Return on Investment (ROI) = Terminal (or Harvest) Value ÷ Post-money Valuation. (in So, let’s address each of these: Terminal Value is the anticipated selling price (or investor harvest value) for the company at some point down the road; let’s assume 5-8 years after investment.

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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

So he acquired Bunker and proceeded to build the product into a nice package that he hopes combined the proposal functionality of Proposable or Bidsketch , with the task management features of Asana , as well as general invoice, time and expense tracking capabilities of Freshbooks or Harvest. He explains.

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Solving Hard Problems: Traptic’s Harvesting Robots

K9 Ventures

The wheat would be harvested with sickles and then threshed by hand to separate the grain. But then, I drove down through Watsonville, CA on the way to Monterrey and saw acres and acres of strawberry, lettuce, and other ground crops that were still being harvested by humans — with their hands. Vinh Phan, Traptic.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money. Even a non-profit needs income to operate. Build a credible business implementation plan to quantify costs.

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Valuation Methods 101

Gust

Return on Investment (ROI) = Terminal (or Harvest) Value ÷ Post-money Valuation. (in The Venture Capital Method (VC Method) was first described by Professor Bill Sahlman at Harvard Business School in 1987 in a case study and has been revised since. in the case of one investment round, no subsequent investment and therefore no dilution).

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