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

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. By the fall of 2004, the site’s explosive growth attracted the attention of many potential investors and buyers.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

TechCrunch

The team is in the process of creating a desktop-sized instrument that can automate the processes used to get genetic samples ready. It’s almost been neglected,” CEO and co-founder Udayan Umapathi told TechCrunch. What I noticed was that the existing technologies for moving, mixing and heating fluids were archaic,” he said. “I

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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. I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees.