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Why Don't Universities Teach Sales?

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King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations → Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales? Why, in business alone, you can get a masters or PhD in marketing (sales’ evil cousin), finance, human resources and entrepreneurship (which isn’t even a business function, but rather a business practice). A “Rich-vs.-King&#

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. But we had a term sheet !!! I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. It was 2007. You can’t believe it.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. But we had a term sheet !!! I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. It was 2007. You can’t believe it.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

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SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Later that evening you review the term sheet from Blue Shirt.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x

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