Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” It doesn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I like to say to first-time entrepreneurs, picking a VC is more permanent than marriage. Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I guarantee this is a bad VC. There are many great VCs.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 297

InfoChachkie

APRIL 7, 2010

Despite the pathetic nature of Barney deals, the big purple dinosaur offered sound business advice to entrepreneurs in a TV episode entitled, “Sharing means caring.” It allows them to avoid the opportunity costs of entering into an agreement that does not yield adequate revenue or cost savings to justify the time and resource investment.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

The ability to objectively critique ones creative output is vital to an entrepreneur. For instance, when a venture capital partner votes for a follow-on investment in exchange for the future support of one of her investments, idea cronyism is at work. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10.

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