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The BSList - Busted Cap Table (No. 104)

This is going to be BIG.

All they’re doing is filling a database. The only thing you did was get listed on Crunchbase or Pitchbook or some other database and you’ve just met an analyst who is screening for all the infosec companies that have raised less than $5mm. There’s a term sheet. was a term sheet. Do you know how I know?

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Because Gust is the word’s most comprehensive database of high-growth startup companies (in terms of size, larger than Crunchbase and AngelList combined), it is increasingly used as a source for third party listings and directories.

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Making Next Year’s Holiday Cards More Effective

Both Sides of the Table

Send them only to people you know – Every year I would go through my Outlook contact database and create a separate list for the people to whom I wanted to send a card. But I have send out business cards in the past. Here’s what I learned and my 2 unsolicited cents: 1. But in all humor … Smart.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? He was the first guy that I saw demystify the legal terms in his term sheet series. But I don’t have money to pay a fancy lawyer – I’ll just have my cousin do it - Don’t.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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They have a wide set of existing relationships, they have teams of junior staff that cull databases (or increasing pile through LinkedIn), they are skilled in approaching prospective talent and they can “pre sell&# your company to get the recruit to the table in the first place. Trust me, you learn a lot more that way.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. venture investments since 1987. We get what we need and put it through our analytical process,” He says. “We