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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. “For

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. Oklahoma is very friendly to entrepreneurs.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. “For

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. And then we do score ourselves with the board, but also with the company. ” That’s reported to the board. I’m Travis Bryant. It was fun.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Can you cancel or reschedule online? Do they respond?

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build. Venture Financing. Board includes Nick Wheeler, CEO of Charles Tyrwhitt.

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