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Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Crusaders

View from Seed

In my experience founders usually fall into one of three types: mercenaries, missionaries, and crusaders. In fact we’ve backed founders I’d categorize as all three types here at NextView. But sometimes they’re the founders most motivated to build a successful company.

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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. You need to: study the rules, make sure that you don’t violate the “affiliate rule” (more later), consult with your Company Counsel, consult with your board and investors and then make your own determination.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

This is all built into a typical founder stock purchase agreement. There are some Vesting terms for founders in the term sheet but I can't find them in the others documents too. Specifically it would benefit from a clause nullifying these drag-along rights in case of a proposed sale to a preferred-affiliated entity.

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My Report on StackOverflow DevDays

Software By Rob

Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup is Really Like, and more… → My Report on StackOverflow DevDays Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. October 22nd, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup?

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Why Your Startup Should Be Involved in Open Source - ReadWriteStart , September 15, 2010 Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?",

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.