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Announcing Projector?—?A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years

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Yet as somebody who has to read and write decks as a major portion of his job I can tell you that most people struggle with how to tell stories visually and when I need to do it I am aware of how difficult the modern toolsets make it to do this alone, let alone collaboratively. We know that apps are fully moving to the cloud.

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The Truth About Convertible Debt at Startups and The Hidden Terms You Didn’t Understand

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Can you imagine investing in the stock market where your price was determined at a future date and the better that company performed the HIGHER the price you paid for that investment. So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 So you’re taking all of the pricing risk. They are not necessarily cheaper.

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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

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The outside mentors can then help them in making projections, looking into their marketing and business development plans, and look at sales projections and organization. They'll even help them with presentation skills. We hope they'll ues that prize to seed fund and start their company, and see how it goes after that.

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

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They know what is “market&# for your recruits in terms of base, bonus & stock options. But as it goes to the legal docs naturally 20 issues arise the require negotiations. This is the skilled bit that you can’t effectively manage. They’re also good at screening candidates. At least the great recruitment firms are.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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I’m sitting at my computer now at 9.00pm writing this – which is an hour earlier than I normally write (there are about 8 women at my kitchen table having a book club (aka excuse to drink wine & gossip so I’m locked in another room writing. They don’t have market power. I enjoy that.

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Why Reed Hastings Should be Applauded for Netflix Split

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In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). He defines this as new products that are dramatically cheaper, lower quality, lower margin but larger markets. Incumbents can’t react.

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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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When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs.

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