InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

Do not rely on the IP lawyer to coax such vital information from you. Provisional filings are especially beneficial for startups because: You gain a year to write a thoughtful, defensible patent without delaying your filing date. Equity Pay - Some attorneys will accept a portion of their initial fees in the form of equity.

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IP Patents Journal Equity 210

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

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. We have an informed point of view. I enjoy that.

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Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. " Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help. I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Just because you want to start a business doesn’t mean you are entitled to outside equity, loans, or crowdfunding. Understand and write down every expense, and budget for required costs, especially initial inventory and accounts receivable delays. Hobbyists tend to work informally with like-minded people. Details are important.

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Customer Custom Tool Writing 125

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Venture farms.

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2010

I discovered the power of employee feelings of ownership early in my management career, establishing an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), once popular as incentive compensation as well as a tax write-off for corporations and even a way to slowly transfer ownership of a company from the founders to the employees.

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Slides News Equity Writing 216

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. Therefore of course they need to be more selection when writing checks and can’t spread their bets across 75 deals. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 This is the same way VC firms, by the way.

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Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Current and past titles don’t convey this information. When sizing your funding request, be aware of the value of your startup today, since most investors expect an equity share for their contributions. Professional investors look for the right people, more than the right product. Marketing, sales, and customer experience.

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Startup Writing Patents Competition 65

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

They might not actively “collude&# and say “let’s collectively keep the price down&# but in the resulting discussion pricing information will flow – whether intentional or not. To be crystal clear – I think AngelList is awesome and I have NEVER heard Nivi or Naval ever reveal or discuss pricing information.

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Pricing Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 292

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. More information comes out.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

As a result founders often meet the wrong investors, waste time on those who ask for more information. Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources. Any information that creates a compelling next meeting is worth doing.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. For small teams, every team member will likely be interviewed.

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Technical Review Startup Writing Competition 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

Starting a new business is not an informal process, and should never be treated like a hobby between friends. Mark Zuckerberg can tell you a horror story about how his early informal breakup with a co-founder ultimately cost him a settlement later worth four billion dollars. Give away more equity than required to drive the business.

Startup 62

Startup Patents Entrepreneur Writing 62

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

And negotiation technique is one of the few areas on my MBA that was truly new information to me by the time I had attended. agreeing whether or not to top up a founder’s equity. As a result I’ve really resisted writing about negotiations. But I did read a couple of books on the topic that were useful: 1.

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Pricing Startup Examples Writing 305

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. Lastly, he touched on the distrust of equity following the bubble in 2000, and that, particularly on the East Coast, people need to see good exits and good exits that reward employees.

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Or read the quick, informative summary below the image! Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. - Matt is one of the most transparent, focused & honest startup guys you’ll meet.

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Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Both Sides of the Table , July 22, 2010 An updated Digital Trends presentation - Jeff Hilimire , June 2, 2010 I do what I hate - Jessica Mah , January 7, 2010 Startup Equity Allocation - charliecrystle.com , January 11, 2010 When good investment decisions end up backing more women CEOs: Conversation with Cameron Lester at Azure Capital.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

My next pivot after writing down all the good stuff (which of course is actually usual to know) is to say, “Those are some great strengths and some of the reasons we liked Stacy so much, which is great to have confirmed by you. This lady who made the calls was very sophisticated and very thorough in information gathering.

Startup 302

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Report 302

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. For small teams, every team member will likely be interviewed.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Writing Competition Tips 90

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. These “super angels” act alone or in informal groups, and require that you find your way to them through personal introductions from their trusted associates.

Equity 232

Equity Startup Organization Invest 232

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Yahoo is an amazing brand and company, and I leave knowing we did all we could to help inform and entertain more than 700 million users each month. I am writing to let you know that Ross Levinsohn will be leaving the company at the end of July. His compensation. as of Friday,adding up to over $5 million.”. Do Not Forward.

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Yahoo Pricing Writing Entertainment 74

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the beginning, when there is nothing, it’s easy to make promises or throw around equity. Write it down…. Do you believe non-native Internet users (ages 35 and up) will migrate toward such a tradeoff, or do you think the unwillingness of older users to share private information is relatively intractable? “I

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Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. Those two typically don't go together well. There's complexity in being a CDN.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com. There are other sites where you can learn about famous people, but you have to read ten to fifteen paragraphs to find that information. Evan Britton: People love learning about famous people.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

My response was brief and straightforward, which is common of popular Quora answers (as discussed in How To Write An Effective Quora Answer ). Although my answer was off-the-cuff, the question caused me to consider the issue of raising entrepreneurial children in greater depth, which led me to write this series.

Entrepreneur 270

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Resource 270

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But this should come by having your mental model of what is correct and only changing it if you can build a new model with new information. You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. They always want opinions even if they don’t necessarily agree with them or aren’t ready to act on the information they learn.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. equity debate. Converts versus equity deals - Chris Dixon , August 31, 2010 There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts). Alltop is a great source of information for both Paper.li

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Product managers have challenges with getting the right information at the right level to the right people. We spent a lot of time talking about what type of company we wanted to create, how many employees we’d eventually have, whether we would take funding, our lifestyle, and a dozen other things that had nothing to do with writing software.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When an entrepreneur takes on investors who take equity (i.e. The board is where large equity investors get their representation. I really like it when independent directors write a check into the company. That way somebody who writes $25,000 gets $50,000 worth of stock plus warrants. obviously make an exception.

Startup 187

Startup Writing Venture Capital Oracle 187

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The women in the program commit $5,000 and invest as a group of woman in a social venture in exchange for equity. For me, it’s very much showcasing that angel investing is not just writing a check, it’s so much more. Do you think women aren’t informed or pitched to when it comes to investing? People have to get in the game.

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Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) They also avoid Reg D.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Smart move on Googles part and congratulations to the geniuses at the private equity firms (Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity) that identified this hole in the market and bought DoubleClick for a fraction of what they sold it for. After writing this, I think I smell something. Ahh, maybe Im just being paranoid.

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Some startup attorneys will accept a portion of their initial fees in the form of equity. When you hit the inevitable bumps in the road, a lawyer who has an equity stake in your business is more likely to be flexible with respect to payment terms and more willing to give you quick, off-the-clock feedback and guidance.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That’s dumb, exaggerated or just ill informed. Jody soon met with Dave McClure who ended up immediately writing a check as a placeholder investment and offering help to get EcoMom press coverage. The ability to show traction is actually the most important piece of information on profiles. It is additive.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217