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BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE AUGUST 8, 2009 WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC&# – the outline is here. You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks. Most of them are telling you that they just need to see a bit of traction before they’d be prepared to [.]. | CHRISTINE.NET AUGUST 10, 2009 Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations A great question came up recently in discussion with one of First Round's CEOs: how much equity should I allocate for hiring my next round of employees? Stock option comparables are hard to come by, so I thought I should post what I dug up for our CEO. CEO 5 - 10. COO 2 - 5. VP 1 - 2. Independent Board Member 1. Director 0.4 - 1.25. | | FRED DESTIN AUGUST 11, 2009 The Funding Drought Don't believe the hype. Yes, it's a nice environment to be starting the winners of tomorrow and seed funding has not dried up. And yes, Wellington and friends feel Spotify is the [Google][Apple] of media and pay (supposedly) €200m pre for the privilege of working with the excellent Messieurs Ek and Lorentzon. But more on that some other day. | | | | | | | |
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BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009 Angel Funding Advice
This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup and [.]. MORE >> -
ALLEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009 allensblog: Co-Founders vs. Early Employees
Ever notice that, after the fact, hugely successful companies have many "co-founders", while failed companies have only "early employees" VC's make it their business to know who the "real" founders of successful companies MORE >> -
VISIONS FROM A VISIONARY | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009  The Best Entrepreneurial Quotes
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. MORE >> -
MEDIA VC | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009  Happy 28th Birthday, PC
Image via Wikipedia. Twenty eight years ago today IBM announced the PC, ushering in a new era of mainstream computing. Check out this post from Dan Bricklin of Visicalc fame commemorating an earlier anniversary where he s hares his thoughts on what it all means. Related articles by Zemanta. Book: Bricklin on Technology (feld.com MORE >> -
JESSICA MAH | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009 Why Indinero isn’t “Freemium”
Over the past few days, a lot of people have asked: “Why doesn’t Indinero.com follow the freemium model?&# I wrote about my understanding of freemium a few months ago here on my blog, but ultimately chose not to go that route for several reasons: 1) When users pay, they’re more serious about using your product. MORE >>
- Software and Making Money (Presentation Slides Included) TONY WRIGHT DOT COM | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
- WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009
- It’s Hard To Get The News From The News THINKING ABOUT THINKING | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- Goodbye Travel Book, Hello iPhone VENTUREBLOG | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning. STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
- Angel Funding Advice BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
- The Business Plan is Dead; Long Live the Business Plan. SEED STAGE CAPITAL | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- 1 Twitter Tip You Can Fix Straight Away BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- What is the difference between a good product and a good company. LIGHTSPEED | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- Data on Start-up Success Says: Start Businesses Early and Often CREATIVE DISTRACTION | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Links for 2009-08-10 [Digg] VC CAFE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
- 1 Twitter Tip You Can Fix Straight Away BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Show Your Real Self - Cultural Transperency ENTREPRENEUR SUCCESS BLOG | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
- A Little Trick to Expose More User Data on LinkedIn CREATIVE DISTRACTION | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- Elevator Pitch MARKET BY NUMBERS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
- What We Must Learn from Asia BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
- Government could make monetization even harder for online ad. LIGHTSPEED | THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
- Burning Cash Is For Toasting Marshmallows [cartoon] ONSTARTUPS | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since. STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009
- What We Must Learn from Asia BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
- The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Too Much to Do EXTENDSLOGIC | SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2009
- Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009
- Setbacks in White House and DHS Organizational Responses to Securing Critical Infrastructure—a Troubling Trend? PASCAL'S VIEW | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- allensblog: IT Glory Days ALLEN'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling - Constantly. CONSTANTLY LEARNING | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
- How much does Google really know about you? | Seth Levine SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
- Proposed International Tax Reform Carries Serious Negative Unintended Consequences for U.S. Companies and Damages U.S. Global Competitiveness PASCAL'S VIEW | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
- Learning Social Media Marketing DAZZLINDONNA | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
- $200 off engage – virtual goods, games and social media conference LIGHTSPEED | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Scale Computing named a Storage Company to Watch MCSTARTUP BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Reversing Unintended Consequences From Regulation is Critical to Restoring Small Company IPO’s PASCAL'S VIEW | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help You STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
- Markup Factory Interview LAUNCH ANY | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- Equity for a CEO in a startup MCSTARTUP BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Wall Street Journal Opinion Column: Don’t Strangle Venture Capital With Miles of Red Tape PASCAL'S VIEW | THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
- The Limits of Vertical Integration — Microsoft Clip Art vs Google. IMMERSIVE WEB | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- Startup Weekend Teams Up With Venture 360 DON'T GO SOUTH | THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
- Pay for Play Angel Groups MCSTARTUP BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- Start-Up Tool Kit OC VC | THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
- Back in the Saddle, Again OC VC | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
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John Morris