Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. You and I were talking about a startup recently and where they might go for seed stage funding, what is your impression on that aspect here in Los Angeles? Tell me a bit about your background.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

” And some seed stage investors told me, “I prefer not to fight over price now. I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? Nobody I know accepts multiple liquidation preferences in early-stage deals. And every seed stage VC tells me they don’t ever even ask for them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. I've been in venture now twice.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. → Learn More.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. → Learn More.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. VCs have never liked them, arguing they misalign investors with entrepreneurs.

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