Berkonomics
MAY 23, 2024
Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over two to four years of service. Pay early-stage board members of companies that are not lifestyle businesses one percent of the fully diluted equity in the form of an option that vests over two to four years of service. How do you set the option price?
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 often send the introduction email and then a second email to the reference to say, “This reference is really important to me.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 28, 2017
I'm also looking forward to traveling the world speaking at other conferences and to the publishing of my weekly podcast, Crypto Leaders, and video series by Agora Financial, the largest financial newsletter publisher in the nation. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. He sent me an email asking whether the approach was real and whether he should take it seriously. Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). Why do VCs send generic outbound emails like this?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 He helped develop an airline tracking system for Homeland Security and is an organizer of the Agile Open SoCal conference.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2018
The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. If a VC “ghosts you” (i.e. I wrote about it here. Sometimes?—?best
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