Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. Post MBA I went into strategy consulting where my job was to problem solve for clients. This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again. It’s not.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

But for my sins I got an MBA and did “strategy&# consulting. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. 18% of all errors come from people using the wrong documents. hours are spent every day by workers searching for documents. It becomes folklore. I encourage it.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

blocking a quorum, or preventing a shareholder/board action). This could be through shareholder voting rights (set through a super-majority that gives that investor a block) or at the board-level (on certain decisions that require board approval like the consent of each preferred director).

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

For companies in Level 4: Relationship , most of the milestones are on finding cost effective marketing, sales, and retention strategies. When you do so, you’ll notice the milestone’s color will darken and your SSRL score (in the upper left corner of the document) will increase. Your score goes up by 0.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Prioritize tasks Prioritization is essential.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The biotech industry is built on one of the cleanest go-to-market strategies in existence: if you make a safe drug that really works, patients are likely to receive it and payors are likely to pay for it. How much of the total financing is allocated towards the lead program? These are all common questions you’ll hear from biotech investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. One component of a good Board is a high value add Independent Board Member, which in my experience, often doesn’t get added early enough (for a variety of reasons). I knew I wanted to help build it from the ground up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding. Mobile app?

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 28, 2019

Here’s how to build a startup advisory board. And while it often seems more involved and complex than it is in reality, setting up an advisory board is something you should look to put in place in the early stages of your entrepreneurial venture. Selecting an advisory board is the tricky part.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

A $100 million fund does not actually have $100 million in capital but $100 million in “committed capital,” essentially a legal document that states that LPs will send the fund money when “called.” I think you’ll start seeing pushback on complete board control by the founding team,” stated Martino. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Others I have not. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Startups have chief strategy officers, chief investment officers — even chief fun officers. They should act as a liaison between the founders, the C-suite, investors and the board of directors with the development team — making sure everyone is asking the right ethical questions in a thoughtful, risk-averse manner.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Include Advisory Board members and key industry people connections. Exit strategy. Marketing, sales, and partners.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. In the latter case, returns improved by 20%. with an average of 5.7 Director seats.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

The stories also had emotion to them, documenting both humorous episodes as well as tougher times (like divesting a business and layoffs) that the company went through. Does it share an organizational strategy or information about the culture that would be of interest to employees? Pressure from the board and/or investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. That certainly works well for some.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Intellectual Property - For a discounted flat fee, Fox’s skilled IP attorneys will review and recommend a strategy to protect your IP, file for trademark protection or perform other services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is the third of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. After the company signs the term sheet, the lender will begin legal documentation and work with their counsel on clearing conflicts to get a full loan agreement drafted. This usually takes about a week.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. What strategies have you utilized to grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program? The other major change that fueled the program was installing a full Accelerator board composed of Accelerator participants.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Jason Dressel is president of History Factory , which helps companies use their history and heritage to enhance and transform strategy, positioning, marketing and communication. But this documented history cannot be a hagiography of the departing CEO. Jason Dressel. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative. These three key documents should do the heavy lifting of capturing attention and communicating information across the partnership with high fidelity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups that are backed by professional financial investors almost always have a Board of Directors that consists of some set of founders, investors and sometimes independent directors. You will often find these governing conditions in the “protective provisions” section of your company’s legal documents.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Running the “Agile&# Board. Most early stage startups having monthly board meetings. And I often recommend that board meetings be every 5 or 6 weeks rather than 4 to give enough elapsed time for stuff to actually happen between meetings. This post is about what happens BETWEEN board meetings.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member and mentor to startups, and an angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. The investor team I was part of grilled the founder to explain why.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How to fix the mistake of losing focus of what really matters: Having a clear strategy in place helps to say NO by agreeing and focusing on goals and priorities. The challenge here is that in a startup, you will probably have to adjust the strategy more often. from an advisor or board of directors. Just not too often.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

In board meetings of these classic VC-backed companies, when a founder reports, “I’m profitable”, the VCs typically say: “That’s a good problem to have; we should be more aggressive on growth.” Here are four templates you can use for better understanding RBI: . You can see their Folder with All the Documents , including the: LLC Agreement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Alternatively, you need to develop a comprehensive strategy to compete and build a compelling suite of products, services and perks. Any corporate strategy document will remain a fantasy on paper if your tech infrastructure is outdated and incapable of meeting your future needs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

billion after raising a $300 million Series D round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The company raised a $55 million extension round in September to bring on a partner, Education Testing Services (ETS) Strategy Capital, the venture arm of the world’s largest nonprofit education testing and assessment organization.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

He’s a numbers guy, great at strategy, we draw a lot on his previous experience advising and investing in the kind of companies who are our target audience today. That’s when we understood why it is so crucial to have a multi-founder strategy. It’s possible only because talented people with unique ideas were on board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

Also, when partnering with a more powerful unknown, it is important to legally document your rights to prevent your “partner” from crashing your business because he or she is willing to risk what you are not. Whitaker is co-founder and board member of RevTech Accelerator, a leading venture accelerator seed fund.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

He tells the story of his baptism by fire in startup-dom, a series of negotiations including office rent, sublet, getting people on board, getting the media to care, dealing with recruiters, dealing with the tech prima donnas, and (a favorite of many) “dealing with pesky VCs.” Their CEO was equally bravado and dumb.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. So it should be no surprise that “yes” doesn’t come easily.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Businesses and organizations can access Persona’s platform by way of an API, which lets them use a variety of documents, from government-issued IDs through to biometrics, to verify that customers are who they say they are. So that has probably been the biggest driver of our growth.”.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To boost your business’ safety measures, adopt these online and offline security strategies. Business security is a team effort, so make sure your entire workforce is on board. Here are strategies that will allow you to fortify business cybersecurity. Offline security measures. Conduct thorough staff training.

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