Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers. Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. Apparently he’s an “organizational psychologist professor and thinks that it’s rude not to answer email. I also surmise that perhaps organizational psychologists don’t get as much unsolicited emails as some of us do.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2010

The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. Email readers continue here.] In subsequent insights, we will explore the legal and ethical responsibilities of board members.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 19, 2014

If you seek funds from an organized investment group such as an angel fund, venture capital entity, or even an investment club, the first thing you want to do is to find one person to buy into your vision, become excited by your enthusiasm and be willing to become the internal champion for your fund-raising effort.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 12, 2018

Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. Recognize the realities of the times; and do all possible to protect the company by documenting behavioral or skill related problems to the employee file.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

If you’ve done a good job in the sales process you’ve already written out a needs document in which your wrote out what you believe the customer problems are with specific examples. It’s true that some solutions are really hard to quantify and the most obvious example people point to is email. Maybe they don’t?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 6, 2025

A punch in the gut Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. Recognize the realities of the times; and do all possible to protect the company by documenting behavioral or skill related problems to the employee file.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Sooner or later you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. First, VC’s in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s). What VC’s can and cannot do. How did you structure your first round? .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point. They write in their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

One of the questions I’m most often asked as a VC is what I’m looking for in an investment. For me I’ve stated publicly that 70% of my investment decision is the team and most of this is skewed toward the founders. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 17, 2013

All the documents were signed in a rolling series of emailed scanned signature pages during the past week or more, with each party signing their own set, never having to be in the same room to sign the single signature page for each agreement. Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2012

Sooner or later these businesses will have to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. First, VC’s in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s). Email readers, continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. Because I invest in “ lines, not dots ” it’s actually the delta that I’m investing in.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 30, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] If you’re seeking investment from anyone other than friends and family, you’re probably going to have to navigate through the exercise of careful planning, documentation and execution. And who is right here? Investors are a fickle bunch in general.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] But what happens when the entrepreneur has taken investments from one or more outside investors and may not even own a simple majority of the company’s stock? Then what happens when there are investors? It is only smart to consider ways to mitigate risks when opportunities to do arise.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Investment documents usually call for quarterly reporting by the company to the investors. Less than a quarter of companies receiving early-stage investment voluntarily fulfill this promise. Usually, one or more of the investors is placed on the board as a requirement of the investment documentation.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board. A seat on your board?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2010

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

There is a natural fear of giving too much information to investors after the initial investment is received. Email readers, continue here.] That burden is an ongoing cost of taking the investment, much as a public company takes on the additional burden of governmental reporting, both adding to costs over time.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you seek funds from an organized investment group such as an angel fund, venture capital entity, or even an investment club, the first thing you want to do is to find one person to buy into your vision, become excited by your enthusiasm and be willing to become the internal champion for your fund-raising effort.

Technical Review 156

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here is the warning: The execution of partnership equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Recently, insurance companies have added employee practice liability insurance (EPLI) to the package to address specifically the recently-increasing risk of employees suing for redress. So, add another $3 to $4 thousand to the policy cost.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Generative thinkers are relentless in asking questions that get to the core of an idea, often making the originator think more deeply about the effects over a longer period of time. The punch line: Investing in the creation of a governance board is not enough. Generative.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

All the documents were signed in a rolling series of emailed scanned or DocuSign signature pages during the past week or more, with each party signing their own set, never having to be in the same room to sign the single signature page for each agreement. How it happens today. Memories of how it used to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Here are five of the most common examples: Failure to document a Founder agreement at the beginning. Early partners or co-founders often drop out of the picture early due to disagreements, and you forget about them, but they don’t forget about the verbal or email promises you made. If a lawsuit is inevitable, better sooner than later.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If you’re seeking investment from anyone other than friends and family, you’re probably going to have to navigate through the exercise of careful planning, documentation and execution. And who is right here? Investors are a fickle bunch. But speed and iterations are attractive benefits. And the result?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Historically you are your email address. Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.” Nearly every day now I see public figures telling people their Twitter identity in stead of Facebook, email or other forms of identity. Who are you on the web? ” Sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified angels and investment groups around the country. Register Internet and social media startup names.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

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. This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc. How can I play to my strengths?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] Some board members find themselves debating whether there should be an expansion from five to seven, from seven to nine or more to allow for such a mixture of protective seats created by the investment documents and balance with outside board members. How about the size of the board?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 29, 2015

Investment documents usually call for quarterly reporting by the company to the investors. Less than a quarter of companies receiving early stage investment voluntarily fulfill this promise. Usually, one or more of the investors is placed on the board as a requirement of the investment documentation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

What Muhammad takes for granted is that every company that starts out immediately knows what he has learned over many years – that marketing is a long, hard slog of continually investing in repeatable, testable channels. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right. Success begets success.

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