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Our co-Founder, Eric Jackson, wrote a guest post for Wedbush on the topic of “The Second Internet” A decade ago, PayPal pioneered the concept of the “stackable network” by growing its network on top of eBay’s. Today, online networks are leveraging the giant social networking sites to follow in PayPal’s footsteps, making it easier and … Read more
In this exclusive interview Peter Thiel–co-founder of PayPal and managing partner of Founders Fund–discusses why he invested in Facebook, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and why he would not start PayPal today knowing what he now knows. (Disclosure: Thiel is an investor in CapLinked.) Last fall you announced the “20 Under 20” scholarship … Read more
CapLinked made it a lot easier to manage my list of prospective investors. Salesforce and Outlook have good CRM tools, but they really aren’t designed for managing investor contacts and they don’t have tools meant specifically for putting a private deal in front of leads.
Companies in the process of raising capital can now embed a badge on their website or blog that links back to their CapLinked profile. They can also display a “raising capital” notice on their CapLinked company profile, next to a button that allows visitors to send a message to the company’s contact person. Embedding a … Read more
A key factor in negotiating a VC raise is the amount of “runway” a startup has left—the number of months before it will be out of money completely. A startup with a short runway will need to raise money fast (and their investors will know it—and will know they can get a big chunk of … Read more
CapLinked is on the move! We’ve introduced a number of improvements to make it easier to manage contacts and communicate about a deal. New and Improved Connections. The address book has been renamed “Connections” to better represent how it works. Connections have now been fully integrated with CapLinked’s features for sharing deals, inviting people to … Read more
We are committed to making CapLinked the world’s premiere platform for connecting, sharing deals, and managing private investments. Here are some of the tools we’ve recently introduced to help you network on our site: Get Recommended. Collect recommendations from people you’ve done business with and display them on your user profile. This fosters credibility when you … Read more
CapLinked is pleased to announce that we have closed an angel round of $525,000, bringing total capital raised for our company to over $900,000. The investors in this round include PayPal alumni Peter Thiel (technology entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of PayPal), Dave McClure (founding partner of 500 Startups), Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir Technologies), … Read more
While the cloud helps startups and small businesses cut down on physical paperwork, it doesn’t eliminate the role documents play in getting business done. In fact, it’s often dangerous for young companies to cut corners and assume that emails and bullet points are sufficient to capture agreements and complex transactions. This is why CapLinked is … Read more
A new Bloomberg/BusinessWeek article on private company valuations quotes CapLinked CEO Eric M. Jackson. According to a study by Nyppex, secondary market valuations of private, venture-backed web companies have increased by 54% since June of this year. This compares to a 21% increase in the Nasdaq. Among the tech high-flyers are Facebook (valued at $41 billion), … Read more
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