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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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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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Your board should protect you!

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

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If I could persuade you that they’re already in these documents would you consider abandoning this structure? Those terms you fought so hard to get out of “clean term sheets” by using TheFunded, VentureHacks and the like are in your current documents. That’s right. Investors call Bull Cap. Enter “the cap.”

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

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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. This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. Next on the checklist.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field. The problem of amplification: The problem got worse as the data flowed out to the “bulge bracket&# investment banks. They got the data feed either from the research company or from the investment bank. What are you on about?

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Should Investors in the Same Round of Financing Ever Get Different Prices?

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The trouble is, nobody has an incentive to agree to write the first check. There is simply no reason for the first angel to write you a check until you have the whole round secure, which is why people herd cats. And after you feel they’re bought in intellectually and emotionally you can ask them to make a small investment.

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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

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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.