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Startup Valuations, Business Models and Social Leverage

November 24, 2008 by Ben Yoskovitz

Howard Lindzon recently spoke at the Startup Empire event about why it’s not a good time to start a company. Thankfully and importantly, his presentation was very practical in nature, answering specific questions that many startup entrepreneurs should be asking right now. Howard touched on three things that are critical: startup valuations business models social […]

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Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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