Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

One of the questions I’m most often asked as a VC is what I’m looking for in an investment. For me I’ve stated publicly that 70% of my investment decision is the team and most of this is skewed toward the founders. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Next on the checklist.

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Gust

MAY 14, 2014

All investments by angels (and everyone else) in a company are made according to detailed legal documents that specify everything about the relationship among the various parties, the terms of the value exchange and the various rights and responsibilities of everyone involved. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Tags: Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The funding was anchored by a major commitment from Two Sigma Ventures, the private venture investment affiliate of Two Sigma Investments. The company makes direct and indirect investments across a broad spectrum of asset classes. That product isn't money--it's their time, attention, sound advice and network.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas. I have even had to get physical security advice from some of the crazy. So if you want some real-world, non-Wharton advice it’s this: Practice writing great email titles that are compelling and personal and grab the attention from the person with whom you want an answer: “Important!

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

For VC-backed companies, where the investments are more likely to be minority stakes, then you look at the investor’s blocking rights (e.g. Circumstance one: go through your documents and take out statements like, “fund x can block, lead investor can block” and go to majority vote. Don’t agree to it, it’s bad advice.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. Not only will it cost you multiples more than average in legal fees to get this deal done, but you might wind up with some gnarly documents with terms that prevent other investors from wanting to come in. I’m not talking about active angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

If you’ve done a good job in the sales process you’ve already written out a needs document in which your wrote out what you believe the customer problems are with specific examples. Often the business case is made in an ROI format – a high-level spreadsheet that outlines the return on investment. Startup Advice'

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

DON’T send me a frigging link to your document on DropBox or a request that the recipient visit your website to watch a video. I met this person at the Open Angel Forum last week but I’m worried that he may have invested in a competitor – should I be concerned?&# Send me a second email that I can forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. Please don’t also confuse this with whether a VC should invest in a CEO who’s done it before – that’s a given. My advice: don’t. I was able to hire the former European head of sales for the largest document management player in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. I tried to argue my views on vesting to a company I tried to invest in 2 years ago. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. They now own 100% of worthless stock.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

The goals of such a meeting are the following: Give others enough information to form an adequate enough and objective picture of the business in order to check your blind spots and offer advice or other kinds of assitance (like intros to folks who have been there before or have the right skills to pitch in).

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the last 15 years, YC has invested in and worked with more than 2,000 companies, and we’ve seen and learned from their successes and failures. The library consolidates the knowledge and advice we’ve previously published and provides a central location for new content.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

As an independent woman with a go-getter attitude, she shared insights with us into her life as an entrepreneur and what it was like getting YHS off the ground, as well as her advice for other young entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Advice for Young Entrepreneurs. Ashna’s advice: “Work on your mindset.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

What Muhammad takes for granted is that every company that starts out immediately knows what he has learned over many years – that marketing is a long, hard slog of continually investing in repeatable, testable channels. Startup Advice' Success begets success. But ignore his rant and hack on.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many of us invest much of our identity in what we do for a living, which means layoffs can transform social and emotional lives overnight. I surveyed six seed- and early-stage investors to get their tactical advice for laid-off tech workers who are thinking about starting up. Many, many more are coming, obviously.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 6, 2025

A punch in the gut Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. So, my advice is simple. Encourage reviewers to be accurate, not just polite, in documenting areas of concern.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Register The investment immigration market has witnessed exceptional growth in recent years, with projections indicating a staggering $100 billion valuation by 2025. A dedicated investment consultant & investor herself she works with clients seeking Residency Permits or Citizenship through strategic investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

If I could persuade you that they’re already in these documents would you consider abandoning this structure? Those terms you fought so hard to get out of “clean term sheets” by using TheFunded, VentureHacks and the like are in your current documents. That’s right. Investors call Bull Cap. Enter “the cap.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc. and it forced me to spend some serious time thinking about what I really look for when I make investments. Secretly, you love that you know she couldn’t do her job effective without you.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Additionally, we standardized the “allowance rates&# for services such as document storage, maximum numbers of users and we created more standardized packages of features that constituted an “up-sell&# to a our premium offerings. RFP Generators – Another obvious investment area. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events. Our lives are intertwined.

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Gust

MARCH 8, 2014

After that most basic and important function, I’ve found that the other really valuable things that a law firm brings to a startup are: Formation/organization documentation and administration: Take a look at this interesting package from one law firm to see the kinds of things that could include: Start-Up Organization Package.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

What advice do you have for people in fast-growing companies about being a team-player but also taking advantage of the unique opportunity it provides? The push back usually boiled down to some version of: “We have this great plan that we spent a number of weeks documenting, socializing, and cascading through the organization.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Join the rest of the nation including equity crowdfunding platforms like 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, where currently only accredited investors are allowed to invest. Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market. So why the hold up?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

And after you feel they’re bought in intellectually and emotionally you can ask them to make a small investment. In the document it outlines that you will issue stock at a $5m pre-money valuation and in recognition of the additional risks and commitments of early money you have allocated warrants to the first $150,000 of investors.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Notice what is missing from this list of priorities: The company itself – that is, a business entity, most often a corporation , that will own the entire business (however defined), issue equity to founders, take investment capital , enter into contracts, make sales, pay employees and contractors, and so forth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Based in Sydney, Australia, Lawpath serves small businesses with services like legal documents, customized legal workflows, e-signatures, business registration, and on-demand lawyers. With its subscription-based legal services platform, Lawpath wants to become the Asia Pacific’s LegalZoom (in fact, LegalZoom is one of its investors).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Advice on Pivoting in a Small Business. Erik gave us some advice on where to shift: Focus on yourself and your teams. Groups or teams can update presentations and documents virtually and see the changes in real-time. Final Words of Advice. Invest in your business even during hard times if you can,” Erik suggested.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Some of the best ways to optimize include using team feedback to identify blind spots that could be limiting effectiveness; recognizing when it’s time to call in an expert to get the job done; and listening to your own advice. These days, on the Internet you can find samples of every document and contract you will ever need, so use them.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. But every freakin’ week there are delays in getting the lawyers to “turn around&# the documents. I have investment money at stake so I’m a principal in the negotiation, too. Their lawyers blame yours.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This massive plunge occurred after investment giant Prosus slashed Byju’s value to less than a sixth of its original valuation. Since 2018, Prosus has invested $536 million in Byju’s, with another significant $153 million investment made in April 2021. Therefore, Prosus now holds a 9.6%

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Invested Interests. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? . Invested Interests. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. A CHF 1-2 million Series A or a CHF 5 million Series B investment is common. More than 50%?

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