Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 21, 2021
Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 30, 2023
Most equity investors tend to avoid truly disruptive technology startups, since they take longer and more money to scale. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. Imitation with continuous innovation predictably drives progress.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 8, 2020
Most equity investors tend to avoid truly disruptive technology startups, since they take longer and more money to scale. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. Imitation with continuous innovation predictably drives progress.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2018
These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” It doesn’t.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.” Investments in the intersection of data, technology and biology.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 8, 2010
How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Most equity investors tend to avoid truly disruptive technology startups, since they take longer and more money to scale. The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. Imitation with continuous innovation predictably drives progress.
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