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Offered without comment. Enjoy. I did not create this video and I have no idea who did. Whoever you are, get in touch and I will heap copious praise upon you.
The crowdsourced funding craze is picking up steam. Tonight we see the launch of 33needs, a site where socially-minded startups can raise initial seed funding from individual contributors on the Web. It is Kiva meets Kickstarter.
These elite private companies are possibly fairly valued, much more so than the vapor dreams of years past, and the very real disconnect is in fact, more closely related to the Valley's separation from the outside world, one more fraught with concern and continued pessimism following exposure to the world's most dire economic crisis in generations.
Last month Heroku announced its acquisition to Salesforce for $250 million dollars, which is an amazing exit for a company that only raised $13 million dollars in funding. Heroku, a Ruby application platform-as-a-service was founded by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins and Orion Henry in 2007. Last week, I had the opportunity to have a chat with James Lindenbaum about the acquisition.
Get your documents in order before your business. SeriesSeed.fi is a set of standardized documents to get your startup over the legal legwork quickly. Includes Termsheet, Shareholders' Agreement and Investment Agreement. People from both sides of the table have taken part in crafting these documents. Short, simple and standardized. Anyone can use the documents for free.
Forget about the Gates Foundation. The world's biggest charity owns IKEA—and is devoted to interior design. The overall set-up of IKEA minimises tax and disclosure, handsomely rewards the founding Kamprad family and makes IKEA immune to a takeover. And if that seems too good to be true, it is: these arrangements are extremely hard to undo.
The integration plan is the way the buyer plans to operate your business post acquisition. You should get this figured out before you sign the Purchase Agreement. You are going to have to live with the results of the integration and you had better buy into it before you sign your company away to someone else.
In Summary: Obnoxious? Brilliant? Unfair? A Bubble? Yes! At the end of the day, it's considered poor taste in the Valley to flaunt wealth wildly like Yuri and Ron are doing. It's like walking into a fine-dining establishment, opening the menu and saying "Yes!" to everything. It's Saudi Prince-level obnoxious to show up in the Valley and go Oprah on the market, "Look under your chairs...
“Startup America” is a White House initiative to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. This coordinated public/private effort brings together an alliance of the country’s most innovative entrepreneurs, corporations, universities, foundations, and other leaders, working in concert with a wide range of federal agencies to dramatically increase...
we are not ‘pay-to-pitch’. Any seed or early-stage company less than 2 years old and with less than $500k in funding is invited to apply to the Pitch Competition – for FREE. The voting deadline is Jan 16th, 2011, so apply today – it only takes a few minutes. The Grand Prize Winner gets a host of prizes, including $2,500, fame, notoriety, and glory.


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