Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I wonder, though, how much of that is emerging market and how much of the industrialized nation growth is due to stimulus money, which in turn either dries up or forced inflation? So I believe that now is the perfect time to build a company and the perfect time for early-stage investors to bet on innovation. million – take it.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Startups die due to a variety of causes. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts. You may end up a company in the difficult position of having to scale back or become defensive, due to market evolution, management blunders, or any combination. But it will still be your company.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. I also reviewed the TechStars documents last year and they are similar in concept to the Y Combinator documents as the chart below indicates.).

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. There are a number of VC firms that had extraordinary success in enterprise software, telecom equipment, and semiconductors in the 1990s.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. By deciding to use a consulting CTO on a temporary basis, you avoid getting stalled in the earliest stages. And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO. Beware, however!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Common areas to address are decisions around capitalization, executive hiring and firing, share issuance (dilution), and acquisitions. Or worse, one that claims equity that you don't believe is due. It is very likely that one or more co-founders will be putting in some cash in the early stages of the company. Is it debt?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company. Next, Shirish Deodhar discussed InnovizeTech , an Indian company that has built software to capture how employees are spending their time in order to help manage and monitor productivity. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Kir Devries. InnovizeTech.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Sometimes angels deal terms are as fearsome as VCs.Other angels, particularly in the earliest stages, will invest basedon a two-page agreement.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. My answer was, and still is, that socially-oriented purpose-driven for-profits outcompete their marketplace competitors due to superior revenues generated from deeply loyal customers and expense saving from free word-of-mouth marketing and long-term employee retention (and even sacrifice).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. I would tell him how you guys feel.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Mahatma Gandhi I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  price based anti-dilution). I’ve attached version 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. Premium member Ajit Narayen, Engineer and Founder at Invention Labs in Chennai, India, was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators by MIT Tech Review for 2011 and was named Innovator of the Year India several months back.

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