Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The naïve entrepreneur thinks he can relax, after he finally cashes the check from a professional investor, but in reality that’s when the work and the pressure starts. Access rights to operational information. All investors have information rights which are detailed in the shareholders rights agreement.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

They say that some people are born entrepreneurs. While this is certainly true, there are also lots of us who know we have the drive and skills to run our own business if we could just decide on the right product or service to offer. Many people have a financial hurdle to overcome as they become entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The naïve entrepreneur thinks he can relax, after he finally cashes the check from a professional investor, but in reality that’s when the work and the pressure starts. Access rights to operational information. All investors have information rights which are detailed in the shareholders rights agreement.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 21, 2016

But, it’s easy for investors to request meetings, and it’s an investor’s job to meet with lots of entrepreneurs. Depending on the rights that you negotiate for, he/she can even block the sale of your company or subsequent fundraising rounds. Major investor / information rights? And maybe they do.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

My general opinion is that anything that makes the financing process faster and easier or otherwise educates entrepreneurs is a good thing. (A 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.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

Ted Wang believes that the “reason that capped convertible debt is the current market leader is that entrepreneurs have been conditioned over time to believe that convertible debt is (a) faster (b) cheaper and (c) better for them than equity investment.” The YC Series AA documents contain similar provisions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

If you’re a marketer, an entrepreneur, or a small business owner and you have a limited budget to market to and connect with your customers, you need Breakthrough The Noise. Break Through The Noise by Tim Staples is on sale now wherever books are sold. does that have a measurable sort of percentage of impact of sales?

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