Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Neglecting to Tag Branded Content. 4M’s – Management, Economic Model, Money. The post Prevent Instagram Shadow Banning and 10 More Tips for Your Business appeared first on SmartHustle.com. In most cases, having your account or content restricted causes a decline in engagement and reach. Using Banned Hashtags.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The new investment gives Zomato a post-money valuation of $5.4 Together they work with over 440,000 delivery partners, a larger workforce than that employed by Indian Department of Posts. “We find the food-tech industry in India to be well positioned to sustained growth with improving unit economics. billion, up from $3.9

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Our world is changing, and fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I explain the difference later in the post or you can click through on this link above for an explanation). How VC’s Calculate Valuation : We walked through a standard deal where you raise $1 million at a $3 million pre-money valuation leading to a $4 million post money valuation. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. Can you please expand on your post about distributed teams? It was a verbal discussion on my post on distributed teams. - I talk in the video about the economics of venture capital and how we make money. Great exit. - Don’t.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In the early innings of the economic downturn, investors turned to portfolio companies to warn of an increasingly volatile environment. Do let me know what yours are by tweeting at me or responding to this post. Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter and tag me so I can thank you for reading myself!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) My advice in my post Should You Even Raise VC still holds.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 22, 2010

She occasionally, and then more frequently, mixed in incredibly thoughtful economic analysis, quickly becoming a must read. She moved around a bit, posting as part of Zerohedge , and I’ve been lucky enough to get to jump on instant messenger with her on occasion. So there you have it… I’m not sure what the point of this post was.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2021

Related: How Startups Can Leverage SEO on a Budget During an Economic Downturn. For this reason, you want to make sure that you have tools to measure your own technical SEO metrics, and that you know how to interpret them (or at least, the most important ones, like the following): Title tags and meta descriptions. Backlinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The problem is that this is longer than the average economic cycle , which means you need to be able to manage in good times and bad. Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. That is conformity.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

I’ll do a full post on this another day. I’ll cover “Why Buy Mine&# in a later post, but my quick answer is that referenceability is the most critical tool to solving this problem. The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.” Tags: Start-up Advice. Why Buy Now?

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 8, 2024

But even the best drugs only work when patients take them and, sadly, many of these “miracle drugs” remain unattainable financially and logistically—some come with price tags of up to $3.5 And yet, these drugs are being developed more rapidly than ever. of companies have fewer than 100 employees).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. In yesterday’s post; however, I did not advocate being greedy. They should have huge upside in the economic potential of your business. . I hope that this post clears that up a bit. Why does someone need to be CEO?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. I covered this a bit in my post about the market definition slide in fund raising. Kind of the obvious next step.

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JUNE 2, 2010

I’m not even going to bother downloading Venture Economics data because I know it’s going to be garbage—most angel rounds aren’t tracked very well. And yes, this post may seem self-serving, since I work at a seed-stage investment fund. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Feel free to take this free content with a grain of salt.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Let’s assume that the company raised it at a normal VC valuation, which means it gave up 33% of the company and thus $5 million / 33% = $15 million post-money valuation. Anyway, I hope this post hasn’t been too harsh. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. They raised $5 million in their B round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Podium is back at the fundraising well this year, adding $201 million to its accounts at a $3 billion valuation (post-money). billion price tag. The company also declined to share IPO plan timing or notes on any notable shifts in its economics. billion valuation. That deal was announced in April 2020. Surely money helps.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. More red tape.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Aimed at managers, this post offers several testable strategies that will help you boost productivity and say goodbye to poorly run, lazily planned meetings. Moving from a pay-as-you-go model to a subscription service is more than just putting a monthly or yearly price tag on a product, CloudBlue’s Jess Warrington writes in a guest column.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. They outline the problems that exist in markets, their approach to the solutions, they update me on competitors and they show me their economic models. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. That’s true. Here’s why: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Short summary of my posts: 1. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here are some of the tools in the Swiss Army Knife that your team needs to be armed with to scale: (this article was originally posted on GigaOm in a shorter format.). So we thought we were just managing our economic risks. Note: the original post in this series on sales segmentation is here.]. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The rest of this post series deals with the reasons why VC froze up in the first place, why investments have heated up recently and why the future of VC funding at the current pace is not certain. The company was therefore priced at $15 million post-money and the VC (s) own 1/3 rd. Tags: VC Industry.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. They realized that they were selling a bunch of cool products but none that had enough economic value. Tags: Start-up Advice. This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful.

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APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. It actually wasn’t the point of my post – my point was just to get people thinking about the issues of size and age in the first place. million investment.

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MARCH 21, 2010

the economic benefits to BigCo never warrant all of the time and effort they put into getting a stake in your company and trying to make that stake worth money. If a company wants to invest in your company and you haven’t read that post please do. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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MAY 23, 2010

So, they’ve posted an open position for a Chief Digital Officer ( PDF posting ). Anyone can set up a Twitter account and post their press releases to it, but how many people are actually going to have public conversations there? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. How do you change culture?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

New people who join the channel get a summary post and Zoom link, plus a button to subscribe to developments as they happen. Post-resolution, the platform generates incident post-mortems — annotated with notes and tags — that can be exported to Jira in the form of follow-up actions. ” Incident.io

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Someone remind me to do a future post on why I think the Ramen Profitable approach has actually hurt some businesses. I don’t think my job is to teach you economics or financial modeling.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

But I thought I should do a quick post on the topic. Options are obviously a very important economic motivator for your first 3-5 employees and your most senior management team. 10 million post money) and therefore if we sold for $100 million dollars one day your gain would be approximately $1 million). Then everybody loses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

” Crunchbase had a post-money valuation of $150 million as of the closing of its Series C. “As difficult economic conditions impact more companies, knowing whether a target account is on the upswing or not gives prospectors the power to focus outreach on decision-makers with buying power,” McConnell said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. So in that context let me use it. Close enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. Post script: Ron Conway’s rationale in our debate was: 1) “all money in a start-up should remain in the company.&# Only if it’s truly early stage would I agree. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Example: Price your NFTs using basic supply and demand economics. Share this post on Twitter and tag Entrepreneur’s Handbook (@ entrehandbook). If it doesn’t help our readers be smarter with their time and money, we won’t publish it. Practical takeaways. The fewer copies, the higher the price due to the theory of scarcity value.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. Budgeting is always hard, especially during economic downturn. Autobooks is one of those Detroit startups that continues to crush it. FinTech companies.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Singapore Economic Development Board inks first Israel partnership with OurCrowd. OurCrowd is the first Israeli company to partner with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), under its Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) programme, StartupHub.ai for AI-powered coding tech BioLumic wraps $13.5M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

I don’t care about the economics at all.” Vaught posted in anger that X had commandeered the account for itself. Musk himself posted a twee t with this tagline without any context. The program, according to posts by X owner Elon Musk, aims to give out $5 million in the first round of creator payments.

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