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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting.

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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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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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Thriving In A World Of Constant Change

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And then of course, who could forget the flux capacitor from the fictional piece of technology that allowed us to, time-travel why the word flux. And I'm like with all due respect to change management, I did not read a book about it. Feel free to give us reviews.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. Yes, you like hip-hop, “urban” clothing and “ ratchet television”, but all that sinks you deeper into stereotypes. Is that wrong? Does it hurt ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs? Is it human?

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

Tim Keane

  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.   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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Become a Great Leader – Harness the Power of Primal Emotions

Up and Running

Outlining everything Jackie reveals would literally take a book, so, for the purposes of expediency, I’ve only reviewed the first couple of chapters, hoping to give you a knowledge base you can build on, and of course to encourage you to read the rest of the book, which truly did inspire me! Who is Jackie Barretta?

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