Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2012

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. In June 2011 Mahendra sent me and Seth a final draft of the book.

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Venture Capital Exit Strategy Angel Investor Deal Structure 136

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Path, a two-year-old San Francisco startup, took this risk and turned down a $100 million offer from Google shortly after their launch in November of 2010. Low profitability. Unprofitable.

IPO 162

IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Tim Keane

AUGUST 20, 2009

Ask any of us who've experienced significant down rounds based on some or all of these things, and one begins to understand the cautionary nature of deal structures.  When there is the prospect of future rounds, sometimes evidenced by misses in the past, deal structures become more caution-driven. November 2011.

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Milwaukee Bootstrapping Cram Down Deal Structure 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

As all good sales VPs will tell you, the compensation plans of the sales team will drive behavior, so it is critically important that you structure the sales and account management plans to align with the key metrics of your business: CMRR, Churn, and Cash flow. ► 2011. (2). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48