article thumbnail

New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

www.founderinstitute.com

You can contact Adam J.August at 1600 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 700 | McLean, Virginia 22102 Phone 703.720.8059 | Fax 703.720.8610 adam.august@hklaw.com | www.hklaw.com Affinity Lab is an entrepreneurial launch platform serving a rich community of Washington DC businesses, non-profits and start-ups. This is a downside protection term.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Employees should be masters of their own time

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was a manager, I was once leading a cycle post-mortem. Richard Ackoff proposed a "Decision Record" model where managers write down their expectations for the outcomes from a strategy or course of action and their reasons why. Utopian theoretics make great blogs but not great managers. March 5, 2009 8:56 AM Eric said.

Employee 146
article thumbnail

The Option Pool Shuffle

venturehacks.com

If you don’t keep your eyes on the option pool while you’re negotiating valuation, your investors will have you playing (and losing) a game that we like to call: Option Pool Shuffle You have successfully negotiated a $2M investment on a $8M pre-money valuation by pitting the famous Blue Shirt Capital against Herd Mentality Management.