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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round.

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

Both Sides of the Table

All of my partners at Upfront do. I see emails from angel syndicates all the time for companies I hadn’t even given 2 seconds thought about investing and I get full info, pitch deck and info about the round size and timing. We fund 10-12 companies per year at Upfront where I’m a partner.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Team – higher requirements for caliber of team members Product – focus on truly differentiated and not me-too Market – is it really big enough to provide investor returns** Traction – need more users, partners, patents, etc Timing – are you building for yesterday or 2 yrs from now? Business - how are you actually going to make money?

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Transcript of The Impact of Dynamic Communication

Duct Tape Marketing

But when you are thinking about writing a book, you’re thinking about what ideas you want to get out, what IP you have, what methodologies you have and you want to get out there because you know it’s good information. 6:04 and then I finally realised what I was doing and changed it mid-course.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. You need your key negotiating partner and both sets of lawyers.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

Get people who know about IP address, HTML and its impact on ranking, QR codes, NFC and other 21st Century marketing tools. Top From Our Partners. Global Syndication Partners. Sharks will continue to exploit it and make $$$ off idiots in marketing willing to pay for it. July 3, 2012 09:22:07. Flag this comment.