Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What kind of deals should I be doing? One of the major calibration pieces for me was where to find deal flow. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. What stage? What price? I hustled.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The post Venture Deals Spring 2023 Course appeared first on Brad Feld. that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows. If interested, sign up now. I hope to see you there in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the course.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2023

Dealing with an ambivalent boss can feel like tiptoeing through a minefield. The post How To Deal With An Ambivalent Boss appeared first on Young Upstarts. Vicky Oliver shares some ways to cope.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2022

Registration for the Venture Deals Fall 2022 course is open. The post Venture Deals Fall 2022 appeared first on Brad Feld. The course is free and starts on September 20, 2022. This is the second time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows. If interested, sign up now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Sellers need to understand that mere closing the deal is not the proper answer. They should finalize the deal by getting the maximum output for their investment. It is always justified on part of the seller to quote the higher ask price because no one wants to suffer losses in financial dealings. Avoid Negative Dealings.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sarah Cordiner highlights the 6 main types of doubters and naysayers that are wet blankets to your dreams, and how to deal with them. The post How To Deal With Your Doubters & Naysayers appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

I have been asked by more than one venture the question, what are the points that I need to consider whenever I put together a deal? Although I put the general terms together, I will ultimately utilize an attorney for formality of the deal and to review anything that I may have missed. Understand your deal limitations.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 1, 2023

The Venture Deals course is free and starts on June 20, 2023. The post Venture Deals Summer 2023 Course appeared first on Brad Feld. This is the fourth time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows. If interested, sign up now.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Dealing with carpal tunnel syndrome. Read on to find out how you can deal with carpal tunnel when it happens to your company: Customer Relationship Management software. Jobs that are most at risk for carpal tunnel syndrome include those that do a lot of typing (a common feature among most startup tech companies).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2022

The post How To Deal With Negative Publicity appeared first on Young Upstarts. Invariably, a company or organization will experience bad news, resulting in negative publicity. Jonathan Dedmon recommends several mitigating steps.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

We all know that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are great days to pick up deals and get your holiday shopping done. Here are 10 of our favorite deals that will help boost your business this holiday season. At $810, it’s a great deal. Check out the review and deal. We couldn’t omit our own deal from this list!

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 3, 2014

This spring, Jason Mendelson and I taught a class called Venture Deals with the Kauffman Fellows Academy. Jason and I spent two days recording videos around our Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist explaining each section and going deeper with Q&A. Venture Deals mooc novoed venture deals'

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Haystack

JUNE 2, 2018

As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow. Surely, some will read this as unfair, and I understand that — so I wanted to write this post about how I sort through all the inbound deal flow and how my brain has been trained to fixate on certain threads and ignore others.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The post Starting Over Again: How To Deal With Administrative License Revocation appeared first on Young Upstarts. Getting arrested for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) is one of the most common reasons why many people end up spending the night in jail.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2012

But at the end of every day I have a handful of cards to deal with. I stopped carrying them several years ago and simply give people my email address (brad@feld.com) as my primary contact data. Sometimes it is one or two; often it is a big pile. Yesterday I was at the Xconomy Big Data Conference in Boston.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2022

The post How Should I Deal With Being Bullied At Work? Bullying in the workplace is a serious problem that can have a negative impact on both the person being bullied and the person doing the bullying. appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

As the AMA continued, they clarified that they have a “well-oiled” process for dealing with the unexpected, and have “incident management” procedures to rely on when outages occur. The irony strikes strong, but there were some interesting nuggets everyone could learn from. It’s Google, what do you expect?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2021

Dailius Wilson, VP of Growth at GetAccept shares the successful sales strategies employed by top sales people to close more deals. The post The Secrets To Closing More Deals appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2023

The post Six Ways To Deal With Rejection In Sales appeared first on Young Upstarts. There’s no way around it – if you’re in sales, you’re going to experience rejection. How you handle it will determine your success in the future.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2022

Brad Feld] says his “strong belief” that “just doing a clean resetting — at whatever the valuation so that everybody is aligned and dealing with reality — is much, much better for a company.” So, as an entrepreneur, I encourage you to deal with reality. The post Down Rounds: Deal With Reality appeared first on Brad Feld.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2017

According to Christopher Penn , the Director of Sales at the Princeton Review, their sales team recently saw a significant increase in closed deals following the implementation of a new lead scoring sales tool. Almost 200 additional deals in under 6 weeks, representing $170,000 in additional revenue. How significant?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2023

“The devil in the details” is a quote that we have all heard, and clearly applies to startups, where success in the long run is all about execution.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We are running the Venture Deals Online Course from March 7, 2021 – April 30, 2021. We’ve moved the Venture Deals Community from Slack to Mighty Networks where we have much more functionality and flexibility. Please sign up if you want to take the Spring 2021 Venture Deals Online Course.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The post How To Deal With The Challenges Of An Expanding Business appeared first on Young Upstarts. Blessed with an expanding business? Manage your growth so that you can adapt to the changes and keep that momentum going. .

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I used to love the Matrix’s Red Pill / Blue Pill metaphor and still use it occasionally to try to make a point around dealing with reality in an entrepreneurial context. But it’s hard to deal with reality all the time. When things are going well, leaders (and boards) often avoid dealing with weaknesses. Collectively.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2023

The post Interviews about Dealing with 2023 appeared first on Brad Feld. So, if you like hearing me think out loud, I encourage both of them. Jason’s show notes include links to specific segments (listed above) if something specific catches your attention.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2019

team, market, product, stage/traction) but also the potential deal itself (i.e. Combining the variables of these two dimensions would sometimes lead one of us to say that this is a “doable deal”, as in “ Well, they have decent traction and this seems like a reasonable market.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It requires the least amount of capital to get going, and it seems relatively easy to do because of the amount of seed deals that seem to get done. The post What’s the Deal with Seed Funds Waiting for Traction? Who knows what their motivation is – but the easiest way to get started is to be a seed VC.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 31, 2017

The post Natural Ways to Deal with Stress appeared first on The Startup Magazine. As you can see, there are a lot of different ways in which you can naturally reduce your stress levels at any given time. Therefore, there is never going to be the need to turn to things such as drugs or alcohol.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2020

We are running the Venture Deals Online Course again this summer. We are running the Venture Deals Online Course from June 28, 2020 – August 21, 2020. Please sign up if you want to take the Summer 2020 Venture Deals Online Course. But before I get to that, I want to highlight a blog post from a Black colleague.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I like his outline of eight steps every leader should take in dealing with setbacks, which I have expanded here for entrepreneurs: Take control of the situation, rather than play victim. The more directly you face adversity in business, the better you become at dealing with it. Every good entrepreneur I know has pivoted at least once.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

If you’re having a tough time hearing “no”, here are three tips for dealing with rejection while fundraising: 1. The post Lessons from a founder: how to deal with rejection appeared first on Version One Ventures. Time will only tell if Awesense becomes one of those companies.

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deal architect

JULY 7, 2014

Filing quarterly corporate taxes I came across Deal Architect’s incorporation papers. Happy (belated) birthday! It’s a good time to thank so many for the decade: Many consulting clients of the company - you have trusted us with many leading edge, Industry Commentary'

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We are running the Venture Deals Online Course from September 13, 2020 – November 6, 2020. We are also creating a new Venture Deals online community available to all past and current participants of the course. Please sign up if you want to take the Fall 2020 Venture Deals Online Course. For now, registration is open.

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Community Networking Startup Venture Capital 139

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Fortunately, there are ways to deal with anxiety and stop living on the edge. Entrepreneurial anxiety is real, and hard to deal with. The post Realistic Tips To Deal With Entrepreneurial Anxiety appeared first on The Startup Magazine. But it is crucial to stay sane if you want to be successful in your entrepreneurial journey.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We are running the Venture Deals Online Course again. It’s free, although it’s recommended that you have a copy of our book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist. If you are interested, sign up now and tell your friends who are interested in venture deals.

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