Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider. So now our collective companies are worth less. It’s just not me.
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. million Raised.
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Berkonomics
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators. Venture farms.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2018
The buyer is shopping for equity in startups and the seller is looking for cash in exchange for equity and shared governing control of his or her company. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. For starters you have to realize that fund-raising is a sales process.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 1, 2016
You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. .” I know it sounds obvious. Trust me – most people don’t do it.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 24, 2017
Leaders in an enterprise soon forget how to write contracts, manage cash flow, or even how to schedule their own time and events. Rely on training courses and coaching for new roles. Second, the list of non-entrepreneurial habits that you pick up in a large corporation gets bigger and harder to break. You must be all of these and more.
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