David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. 2-5x return cap + path to uncapped equity-returns.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 7, 2015
All of my partners at Upfront do. If you have 50 investors on your cap table – I’m sorry but you really don’t know what the f**k they’re telling people about your company or whom they’re tell it to. We fund 10-12 companies per year at Upfront where I’m a partner. I agree up to a point.
blog.simeonov.com
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Most partners, be they lawyers or VCs, tend to tweak the standard with their own language. It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. Those related to other matters: IP assignment, invention disclosure, non-solicitation, non-competition, termination, etc.
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 10, 2017
If you’ve already reached the pinnacle of a highly skilled profession and have derived your credentials from that, you might be best served by partnering with a “company builder” — the role I have taken in multiple cases and that I will continue energetically in my new partnership at TechSquare Labs in Atlanta.
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