(7) For a new startup, what would be the "acceptable" equity percentage given to VC (Series A financing)? - Quora

(7) For a new startup, what would be the "acceptable" equity percentage given to VC (Series A financing)? - Quora: "however, is that in most cases, for most early funding rounds, a startup should be prepared to give up 20%-40% of its equity in each round, with the amount of cash raised being enough to take the company to 'the next level' (that is, far enough along that it has reached important milestones and demonstrated success, so that it will be able to secure an additional round of financing at a higher valuation.)

Note that this doesn't include cases such as the new breed of early stage accelerators"

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(7) David S. Rose - Quora

(7) David S. Rose - Quora: "Gust, my full-time day job, built and operates the global collaboration infrastructure for the early stage entrepreneurial economy (we run the official angel investing platform for the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, France, Portugal, Turkey, India and several other countries, connecting 125,000 startup companies with 35,000 investors, and processing over 5,000 business plans a month.)

I serve on the boards of directors of KoolSpan, Pond5, Comixology, Social Bomb, Magnify Networks and Por ti Familia (Peru), in additional to those of several philanthropic and public service organizations."

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Facebook Scoops Up Face.com For $55-60M To Bolster Its Facial Recognition Tech (Updated) | TechCrunch

Facebook Scoops Up Face.com For $55-60M To Bolster Its Facial Recognition Tech (Updated) | TechCrunch: "Facebook could create some sort of API or otherwise allow app developers to build in Face.com’s facial recognition…as long as they integrated with Facebook and let users share content back to it.

The $1 billion Instagram purchase made it obvious that Facebook sees mobile photos and the communities that share them as critical to its future. Once that acquisition closes, Facebook could even port Face.com’s facial recognition to Instagram."

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Motorola Mobility Acquires Video Guide Startup SetJam | TechCrunch

Motorola Mobility Acquires Video Guide Startup SetJam | TechCrunch: "More TV shows and movies are available online than through cable. No one watches them though because they’re scattered across dozens of sites. At SetJam we’ve abstracted this complexity and created a place where people can watch TV online in a way that rivals old TV in its simplicity. In so doing, we believe that we can drive a mass audience to legal content and build the basis for a new kind of TV that is personal, interactive, and..."

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