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How Much Should You Raise in Your VC Round? And What is a VC Looking at in Your Model?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. It goes something like this … VC: “How much money are you raising?” Founder: “$8–10 million” VC: “What’s your current burn rate?” Founder: “$250k / month.” VC: “So at a constant rate of burn rate you’d be raising enough for 2.5–3 years.

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A Powerful Method to Building Employee Engagement

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written by Bonnie Slater. The original version of this article appeared on the blog of Boost, a New Zealand–based company that designs and builds web and mobile apps. EO member Nathan Donaldson is the founder and CEO of Boost. . As a leader, manager or coach, do you feel fully engaged with your team? Or perhaps, like many of us, you’ve fallen into a rut—having brief catch-ups when something’s gone wrong or completing performance reviews as part of your annual to-do list.

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How can you let a talented employee go to pursue a new career?

Berkonomics

It is tough to lose your best employees wanting to advance their careers. Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them. And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible.

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The VC Twilight Zone

Haystack

Talk to any Bay Area VC in the last 24 hours, and the talk of the town among investors is universal : “ What do you think of the SV Angel news? ” Depending on your point of view, it is the perfect trigger for a conversation about the state of the Bay Area’s investment market. Let me be perfectly clear — I do not know anything about SV Angel’s inner workings, and in all of my own interactions with Kevin, Topher, Brian, and @pm (when he was there), SV Angel was extrem

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks

Both Sides of the Table

One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. As an entrepreneur it can feel as intimidating as going to buy a car where the dealer knows the price of every make & model of a car and you’re guessing at how much to pay.

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About this book

Derek Sivers

In my first book, Anything You Want , I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my company. As part of selling the company, I signed a non-compete agreement that said I couldn’t do the one thing I’d been doing since I was twenty-seven years old. So I had to make a real change in my life. I thought a lot about what’s worth doing, fixing faulty thinking, and making things happen.

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10 Tips for Creating Top-Notch Presentations

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written by entrepreneur Jeremy Choi, CEO and co-founder of WPUP Inc. A version of this article originally appeared Jeremy’s blog , where he shares his thoughts on leadership, relationships, fatherhood, entrepreneurship, productivity, and more. . Steve Jobs was arguably one of the best presenters to ever grace a stage. His presentations were inspiring.

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And then they came for our startups. [ACTION REQUIRED] on Startup Visa changes

This is going to be BIG.

A few years ago, venture capitalists and founders got together to make it easier for international founders to come here and start new businesses. Why? Because it has generally worked out amazingly for Americans. Half of the startups in the U.S. that currently enjoy valuations of over $1 billion were founded by immigrants. Those companies employ Americans with real jobs--and there's no shortage of dollars willing to back them.

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