Press Pricing Technical Review Writing 
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FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. Mostly kidding. Another firm funded them.
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OCTOBER 12, 2014
Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%).
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NOVEMBER 14, 2010
I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it.
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MAY 4, 2013
What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What kind of deals should I be doing?
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MAY 4, 2013
What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What kind of deals should I be doing?
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AUGUST 14, 2017
But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict. Sometimes conflict comes because executives want to increase personal compensation and investors aren’t in favor of this. What prompted this post? It has nothing to do with any individual company.
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JUNE 22, 2011
I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I suppose I should have imagined that this line would get more press than all other comments combined. But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. I believe that. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs.
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