Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. The key difference between them, according to purists, is that accelerators compress the timescale for startups by operating as a type of boot camp.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. While it may seem like a tough question to answer, I would argue that most practitioners of valuation analysis would state “not very high.” It is not my aim to specifically convince anyone that Uber is worth any specific valuation.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week. Who We Are. The Programming.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

A few years later they announced $150 million in a funding round at $1 billion+ valuation and are ramping up jobs to secure their market-leading position. I’m reminded of LegalZoom who was founded in LA but moved it’s headquarters to Glendale and much of its operations to Austin, Texas. Perhaps – who knows?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. Another concept we need to introduce now is valuation. I say "in theory" because in early stageinvesting, valuations are voodoo. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. When the companies merged, those operations also merged. Let’s talk about Revolution’s operation. Zip car operates as a club and if you are a member you can rent a car by the hour.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. It could mean an operating system, or aprogramming language, or a "framework" built on top of a programminglanguage. If VCs fund you, theyre not going to let you just put the moneyin the bank and keep operating as two guys living on ramen.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And they just announced a new round of funding; $300 million from Salesforce Ventures, pegging the company’s post-funding valuation at over three-billion dollars. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. So what’s changed?

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