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Automotive BDC: How Can In And Outbound Call Management Help Automotive Companies

YoungUpstarts

A call management system can improve your business’ customer service in the following ways: It enables your employees on the line to access information right away, should the caller need it. It provides for a smoother transaction and conversation during calls. The sales made due to phone calls.

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Should you go after value-add investors for your seed round?

Hippoland

I have this conversation all the time with portfolio companies. Depending on the rights that you negotiate for, he/she can even block the sale of your company or subsequent fundraising rounds. You do not need to do this until the conversations get serious – i.e. the investor says he/she wants in your deal.

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What is convertible equity (or a convertible security)?

Startup Company Lawyer

In fact, the form of convertible debt documents that YC recommends that their companies use has been recently revised to include a provision that forces a conversion of the debt into a pre-negotiated Series AA preferred stock upon the consent of a majority in interest of the convertible note holders.

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3 Things To Do Before Creating An Online Form

YoungUpstarts

Form expert and author of “ Forms that Work “, Caroline Jarrett, says in her book that forms should flow just as a spoken conversation would. A lot of form makers wrongfully assume that just by asking the right questions that their day is done. Consider flow. But there’s an art to creating flow that works.

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Transcript of Why Reviews Matter to Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Aaron Weiche: We definitely see a very strong signal from the biggest window into the web through Google, that reputation really matters, and they are bringing it to the conversation right in that search result, very high, and very visible for a user to interact with. does that have a measurable sort of percentage of impact of sales?

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What are the terms of Yuri Milner/SV Angel’s Start Fund $150K investment into Y Combinator companies?

Startup Company Lawyer

Automatic conversion: on a $1M equity financing with no conversion discount and no price cap , provided that the transaction documents provide for a right to purchase a pro rata share of future financings. (I Optional equity conversion: on other equity financings with no conversion discount and no price cap.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

Meanwhile, individuals and smaller companies emailed by the hundreds to say that they wanted the features of custom channels, but the sales model—arranged like a media buy—didn’t make sense to them. “We don’t give you all this Pro plan information right away when you join SlideShare.