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Lightspeed VC Michael Mignano on Why Apple’s Threats Influenced His Decision to Sell Anchor to Spotify, Why No FOMO in Venture is Good (AI Aside), & What NYC Founders Need to Realize

Hunter Walker

I can vouch for his genuine optimism Hunter Walk: You got to work with a number of different VCs on your cap table for Anchor. It was a match made in podcast heaven. When the two don’t match up – different visions – is that something you just keep quiet on? Who was the best one and why was it Homebrew?

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called. We were on a roll.

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Company Culture Is Really Important, But The Way We Talk About It Is Wrong

Hunter Walker

And it’s with your first hires that your intended culture will be solidified, evolved, mutated, or challenged. Good” cultures are clear, consistent, scalable, actionable, well-matched to the company’s business model, and legal. I won’t invest in a startup that doesn’t care about its culture. Code can be rewritten.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. Electronic order matching systems that match all supply and demand for securities to determine a fair market price have been used in our financial markets since the early 1980s (approaching 40 years). These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

So they agreed to match True’s term sheet. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. No gotchas. No option pool shuffle. No hidden terms. Now that I do they’re willing to accommodate?

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. You can conduct group interviews, get your candidate “liquored up” (not a recommendation), and even have a trial period on the job to see if there’s a good match. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention.

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What Do You Want From Me Besides Capital?

Hunter Walker

Information, relationships, pattern matching for marketplaces, SaaS, financial services, agriculture, media, etc etc – our backgrounds and/or portfolio suggest that we might have ability to help the founders move faster and with greater accuracy in testing their market hypotheses.