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GROWCalifornia: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Lights, Camera, Action! We’re very happy to announce the public launch of the California Business Ascent video webcast series, showcasing the most exciting startups you’ve never heard of. For ten years we’ve introduced more than a thousand early stage ventures to our network of active investors at dozens of Golden Capital Venture Capital conferences throughout California and Nevada, and more than $1.6 Billion has been invested in our alumni. Our first live program is this Thursda...
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GROWCalifornia: Venture Island - North State: The Trading Post
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Monday, August 3, 2009. Venture Island - North State: The Trading Post. The Venture Island - North State entrepreneur competition launched its second annual competition with a special event called " The Whole Pina Colada. On June 23. The event showcased several successful innovative product companies in the North State. The Venture Island competition process includes a series of four challenges. The first challenge, " The Trading Post. The top ranked pitch from "the Trading Post" was Novasyte. 8221;, wil...
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GROWCalifornia: February 2009
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. Tom Hayes Stimulus Package. Our old friend Tom Hayes is at it again. In an op-ed piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, he and Michael S. Malone critique the new administration's stimulus strategy, and offer suggestions for an innovation-based approach that certainly sounds more promising than propping up failed industries. First, kill Sarbanes-Oxley or make it voluntary. Right now. Eliminate payroll taxes, which unnecessarily burden young companies. . Lower capital gains...
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GROWCalifornia: December 2008
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Other Buzzwords. 8220;Entrepreneur” is vexing not only for its difficulty to spell and pronounce, but because not all entrepreneurs are created equal. Yet there is no easy way to distinguish between them. Is the corner hot dog vendor an entrepreneur? Are mom and pop hot dog cart vendors, or other regional small businesses like them who sell products and services exclusively to a local market, going to bail us out of our economic doldrums?
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GROWCalifornia: Liquidity Launches
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Monday, June 22, 2009. June has seen the start of three new liquidity markets for private equity assets. The IPO market dried up very quickly after the turn-of-the-century dotcom market bust, and most exits since then have been in the form of mergers and acquisitions. Now some of the leaders in the private equity industry are becoming. Launched on June 1st, InsideVenture offers what it calls a "hybrid public-private offering", or HPPO (pronounced "hippo", lamentably). It works very much like a conven...
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GROWCalifornia: June 2009
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Monday, June 22, 2009. June has seen the start of three new liquidity markets for private equity assets. The IPO market dried up very quickly after the turn-of-the-century dotcom market bust, and most exits since then have been in the form of mergers and acquisitions. Now some of the leaders in the private equity industry are becoming. Launched on June 1st, InsideVenture offers what it calls a "hybrid public-private offering", or HPPO (pronounced "hippo", lamentably). It works very much like a conven...
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GROWCalifornia: The Sound of Web 3.0
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Saturday, May 23, 2009. The Sound of Web 3.0. We've long been fans of Tim Westergren and the Music Genome Project. In 2003, at our East Bay Venture Capital Conference, Savage Beast Technologies (as his company was called then) was honored as the best presenting company at the event. So Westergren and his team repurposed the code to create the streaming internet service Pandora, which has become one of the most popular "personalized radio" sites on the web. We submit that Pandora is an early example of t...
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VCHub.com | Anti Dilution – Full Ratchet
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Connecting the venture world. Anti Dilution – Full Ratchet. The most punitive anti dilution provision is a Full Ratchet. By default, you see 3,000,000 shares for VC Firm A for their Series A investment. This was 1,000,000 shares before the anti dilution was triggered. Hover your mouse over the 3,000,000 shares to see the original and anti dilution shares. Now, do the following:. Change the pre-money of Series B to $4,000,000 to remove the trigger of the anti dilution. That increases the number of shares ...
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VCHub.com | Anti Dilution – Narrow-based Weighted Average
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Connecting the venture world. Anti Dilution – Narrow-based Weighted Average. An in-the-middle version of anti dilution is narrow-based weighted average. By default, you see 1,333,333 shares for VC Firm A for their Series A investment. This was 1,000,000 shares before the anti dilution was triggered. Hover your mouse over the 1,333,333 shares to see the original and anti dilution shares. Now, do the following:. Change the pre-money of Series B to $4,000,000 to remove the trigger of the anti dilution.
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