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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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Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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Secure Enterprise Sharing Provider CapLinked Announces $3.5M Round

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The round is led by Subtraction Capital, and includes investments from PayPal co­founder Peter Thiel , Indicator Ventures, and venture debt lender Western Technology Investment (WTI). Investing in Caplinked was an easy decision for us,” explained Subtraction Capital General Partner Jason Portnoy. Gigs and gigs of data.

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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And I get flooded with legal docs, end-of-quarter financial administration, recruiting, whatever. Do you find yourself too much in email mode? I regularly shut down my email so that I don’t get pop-up alerts when I’m working. Board Meetings. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode.

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How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence?

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He forwarded an annoyed email to my main contact at Salesforce. 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. Have you invested money directly? They somehow figured I wouldn’t find out. What did he do?

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech

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andi lets you 1) multitask on screen with live panels and transition to and from multiple task sets, 2) browse offline docs and apps in the same multitask environment as online activities, and 3) organizes and manages unlimited panels and queues in a single active session. Xavor invest through our dependable consulting services.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

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If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. I always made them commit in an email to the day they would ship documents and then I’d hold them too it. I’d send them their email and point out the docs were late. Lawyers are like any humans.