View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

The literal definition of a mercenary is a soldier who fights for monetary reward rather than political cause or national affiliation, and in modern times we often use the term as a derogatory description of someone’s attitude or motivations. The Mercenary. The Crusader.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

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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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. This is all built into a typical founder stock purchase agreement. Specifically it would benefit from a clause nullifying these drag-along rights in case of a proposed sale to a preferred-affiliated entity. Sets the valuation at the time of the investment. Kind Regards.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Why Your Startup Should Be Involved in Open Source - ReadWriteStart , September 15, 2010 Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?", That crazy chicken. Yes we can!

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

2- You could also look at setting up an affiliate marketing program. Find popular, relevant websites and see if you can get them interested in signing up for an affiliate program. There is also an industry of people who put up "independent" review sites and drive a lot of affiliate sales through PPC.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation. I’m an investor in this company, via ff Venture Capital, HOF Capital, and/or an affiliate thereof.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. At least Pidgin folks openly say “we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple&#. link] Jim Great article Seth.

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