Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. 2-5x return cap + path to uncapped equity returns. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Satya and I were having lunch (yummy Chinese food) with our LPAC and the conversation turned to generally “how much more did venture portfolios have to fall before they found their true current value?” And fascinating new advances (and needs) in AI, climate, biology, etc are driving tech-IP driven startups.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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Hippoland

APRIL 10, 2016

Ada is my professor, and we are using her lab, and the company is based on her research, though the IP is assigned to the company. You will have tremendous difficulty raising money with this kind of cap table, and investors will make you restructure your cap table. Let’s call them Ada and Bob.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

I’m certainly a fan of this wave of attention to the startup world, but we must keep in mind that economists are reporting that the share of companies less than one-year-old in the United States has declined by almost half since the ATDC opened its doors. Startup founders had better be in much more of a hurry than that.

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