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Early Stage Advisor Equity Grants

Eric Friedman

An underutilized action by founders is canceling their vesting due to lack of interaction or help with your company. Like all things, waiting to have the hard conversation is never a great idea. These are easy conversations for a founder as they hopefully are surrounded by people that want to help. Some are not.

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Be Shareable

YoungUpstarts

As I sat in the dark hallway with the sounds of a loud conversation in Portuguese pouring through the door, only one thought was blazing through my head: had we pushed it too far? There was a time when “viral” simply referred to, well, viruses. My mind raced. Going Viral.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. Reference Calls I do the exact same for reference calls.

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15,000 Tech Workers Have Been Let Go In May. Were You One of Them?

Hunter Walker

The ‘average’ startup offers a 90 day period post employment where you have to exercise any vested stock options before forfeiting them back to the company. Prep your manager, peers to be references. Basically replenish your reference checks. And finally, two conversations to have with yourself.

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How To Build a Business People Want To Refer

Duct Tape Marketing

We weren’t setting expectations about referrals early in the sales process, we weren’t making it easy for people to refer us to others, and we weren’t ASKING for referrals, even though most of our customers are happy to give them! They feel more vested in what we do and want us to succeed! Increased referrals.

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Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman

After that conversation, I called around to learn more about Brian, Joe and Nate, and I got really strong references. As is my usual practice, I’d checked references on the founders before I met with them. That’s when I agreed to meet them. They came to Greylock’s offices on a Sunday to meet me.

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