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Aspiration Gets $47M For Online Banking Efforts

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The funding lase led by Social Impact Finance, and also included Allen and Company, Omidyar Network, Alpha Edison, AGO Partners, Reyl & Cie, and Capricorn Investments, plus actor Orlando Bloom, Los Angeles Clippers coach "Doc" Rivers, former Citigroup Chief Operations and Technology Officer Deborah Hopkins, Bad Robot President Brian Weinstein, (..)

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5 Steps To Reduce Due Diligence Investment Failures

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Others schedule long and exhaustive practice and coaching sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone tells the most positive and consistent story. Set up an interview room, stocked with current docs.

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

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Apart from the app directory, SGL has also created a Press Release publishing tool for developers to upload their docs during the submission process easily, making it even better for SGL to send it to its network of industry connection. Partnership to give firms bigger business opportunities.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. Sending the docs via email is less friction than making people come to a data room. He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. But just putting a customer reference list in a data room?

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How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence?

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I often coach that this period is often when you can engender great confidence from the partner. There is no reason to part with your cap table or legal docs until you’re convinced that they’re actually committed to doing work with you in due diligence. In my opinion that is totally old school.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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But as it goes to the legal docs naturally 20 issues arise the require negotiations. You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. Lawyers : So you got your big term sheet signed and you’re now in the drafting. You want the deal to close in 4 weeks.