Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.”

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. These agreements may be inappropriate, unfeasible, or unwise to put in your signed legal documents.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

has now employed the same strategy. And precisely because buyers usually prefer to have limited money go to investors – investors almost always have the ability to say “no” to transactions in the terms of their funding documents (aka “blocking rights”). And who cares, right? in their 20′s.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One possibility is to let all parties involved sign contracts and other official documents with digital signatures. The post 6 Strategies for Local Startups to Scale Up Nationally appeared first on StartupNation. Before forging ahead with such pairings, consider how to streamline the logistics involved.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

The lean startup approach introduces a more dynamic and resource-efficient strategy. Such real-world input is crucial for deciding whether to persist with your current strategy, tweak your idea, or abandon the project altogether. While still in use today, that method comes with high risks, particularly when resources are scarce.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

The intention is also to create asset protection strategies so creditors, predators or ex-family members, cannot access the monies that your mom and dad worked so hard to accumulate. You also need to know who are the executors, trustees, and beneficiaries of all your parents’ legal documents.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A simple example would be sending resource material (documents or spreadsheets) or agendas that your employees must read before a scheduled meeting. Simply emailing them turns inefficient in the long run, as once the document has been updated, the newer versions would need to be emailed. Synchronous Communication.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2022

All you have to do is repurpose that content into videos that work well within your existing marketing strategy; no brain-racking required. You can even turn customer support documents (product use instructions, FAQ pages) into video slideshows. The method you choose depends on your marketing strategy.

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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. Numbers are important. It becomes folklore.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. VCs like to measure your strategy & progress over time I like to download the decks I receive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2024

Create a single document outlining your brand in vivid detail, then design training to educate all new hires, and implement performance metrics based on brand values. The Brand document is foundational to your decision-making process. When you make strategic decisions, is it easy to determine what is on-brand — and what is off-brand?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I am good at cranking out documents, memos, presentations, letters and spreadsheets. “I did that f **g documents yesterday! I’m going to do a follow up post on: Strategies for Coping with ADD and what to make of the available ADD medicine. And then I struggle to go back and edit the minutiae of them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

It’s slightly easier than telling every first-time entrepreneur to make sure to have a banner on the wall that reads, “remember to do your SEO, SEM, content marketing, social media, referral marketing strategies on a daily basis and with quantitative rigor.” But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

Even worse, when I was a strategy consultant I learned how easily data could be manipulated to prove just about any reasonable thesis and how a well-structured argument lined with data or pseudoscience could persuade large groups of people of dubious conclusions. I remember when I spoke with Aaron Levie early in the days of Box. billion!

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

On a case-by-case basis, investors are willing to remove blocking language from company documents, lower their ownership percentage so they’re not in a blocking position, and aggregate their ownership across funds to a single fund manager. Removing problematic covenants can be accomplished as an amendment to company documents.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. Everything needs to be part of a holistic company strategy. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. So how much PS is too much?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

From fundraising document templates , to tips on how to pitch , to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope that our library offers something useful to every founder. One of the most common requests we get from Startup School participants is that we provide more content than what is currently in the curriculum.

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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. Learning new tools takes time.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

Theoretically, someone could meet you, sign your document, and write you a check for deposit that day, but that''s not how it usually works. The way I choose conferences and events, and my strategy once I''m there, is based more around who I''m going to back two years from now than it is who is raising now.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This next-level alignment empowered Karen with the capability to run the company according to the priorities and strategies we discussed in-depth each week for the previous year. Documentation. Now that our systems and processes are refined and firmly in place, we’re documenting them in a written playbook.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Computers allowed lawyers to produce, store, and edit legal documents more easily. AI can be used in discovery to expedite the process of sifting through data files, and often to find documents a human may have missed. By Brian Hall, a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization in Austin, Texas. Robot lawyers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 4, 2022

With so much happening, it can be tough to document every single aha moment, but here are my top ten from GLC 2022: 1. The ‘super’ in “supermodel” comes not from luck and good genes, but rather from a deliberate business strategy. How to create a metaverse strategy for your business. How to improve your memory.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 5, 2024

A barrage of documents and manuals can be overwhelming — and, let’s be honest, they’re not the most digestible type of content you can put in front of new remote hires. Excellent video content has the unique advantage of being able to convey nuance, tone, and even emotion to bridge the gap where other media falls short.

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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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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. But they play a multi company, multi-year strategy. You want the deal to close in 4 weeks. Their lawyers blame yours.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 28, 2019

We all have strategies and ideas, but the difference between businesses that grow fast and those that grow slowly is the ability to execute and put things into place. Three key components to a successful translation include a clear source document, an understanding of the source document, and attention to detail.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So, make a point to check in with your salespeople on a regular basis, and document your findings so you can pick up on patterns in your customers’ comments. To prepare yourself, keep these strategies in mind and employ them when you need to pivot next. After all, rejection is just part of their day-to-day reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? It’s not a sufficient strategy to think you’re going to win because you’re competing with big, dumb companies. You’ll be dead.”. Or Box.net.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2020

The key to success, however, lies in a tactful execution of strategy. Microsoft Teams, a platform that allows users to share documents, send messages and chat over video saw a 500 percent uptick in conference calls. Zoom, a software that hosts virtual meetings, saw its share price nearly double due to the increased usage.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. Much of my time is spent setting the vision and strategy for Faire and driving the execution of that strategy. Communicating the strategy to the entire company requires multiple channels and repetition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This helps them learn how to improve and reimagine what’s possible by developing greater discipline and focusing on fundamental business strategies. This type of leadership team is capable of creating processes to execute against the strategy which, in turn, creates a cycle of innovation. I began to think like a leader.

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