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APRIL 30, 2015

What is it, and how should founders think about it? Glen Mello: Venture debt is a good complement to equity. It’s generally got a lower cost compared to equity capital and can help support growth. So it makes it a lot more challenging when you have debt on the books that isn’t as longer term as equity.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

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APRIL 27, 2022

accessible US home equity as of Q1 2022. Home equity is usually the largest asset of the average U.S. increasing their debt load and taking on interest expense, either through home equity loans or reverse mortgages. Home equity is usually the largest asset of the average U.S. in 2022, and there is $9.9T

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APRIL 2, 2020

Their focus is on talking to founders to understand what their specific business needs are in the immediate future and the coming months. Those companies are the ones that we don’t really worry about and are in the best position that you can be in as a founder right now. Company B wanted to raise capital in 2020.

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MAY 19, 2015

At the seed stage, the founder’s or co-founders’ role in the company is essential and therefore carries a great deal of risk for missteps. Without a full corporate infrastructure of support, and more importantly, without extensive monetary resources, founders and employees must spend wisely. Taciturnity.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

Take gaming as an example: The founders at Fig , a NextView-backed company, see huge opportunity for video game startups to use crowdfunding to their advantage, so much so that they launched the company around exactly that idea. We also wanted to be able to use the JOBS Act and give equity to backers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In fact, there’s a glow among the Twitterati that alignment between founders and investors is getting back to normal. As startups raised more capital and needed to compete for the best talent, they’ve been forced to give both real equity and pay market rates. This surprises nobody. See Angel List’s breakout here for current rates.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

As a creative writing major with eyes set on venture, my intervening eight years between then and NextView went: South American nonprofit, link-shortening service, long-form nonfiction media, equity crowdfunding for local businesses.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the best and most positive movements proliferating around the tech community is what Product Hunt founder and CEO Ryan Hoover calls “building in public.” – Questions to ask when dividing founder equity. – How to respond to questions about market size before you’ve even launched. – Should startups blog?

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JANUARY 26, 2016

Just yesterday, for instance, we saw a company raising a seed round that has no product and two founders … and we also saw a company raising a seed with hundreds of thousands of dollars of monthly revenue. technical co-founder). Many seed investors (as well as Series A investors) will back a founder at a very, very raw stage.

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MAY 12, 2015

Are you a founder of an ecommerce startup? The dirty not-so-secret is that a “partner” designation isn’t necessarily a true equity Partner in the firm’s actual businesses entities. When founders in our portfolio at NextView go out to raise a Series A, these are some of the things we talk about. Always think about fit.

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MAY 16, 2019

Practically speaking this doesn’t mean that all of the shares owned by founders, investors, employees (RSUs), or others will be available to trade immediately as they will need to be converted and registered for public trading. But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

What’s interesting about these sorts of businesses is that they behave very differently from most other businesses that startup founders tend to build. Insurance companies have decades if not centuries of brand equity to draw upon. The Lifelock founder established credibility by sharing his social security number with the world.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

.” Others might suggest adding an even greater flex amount here, but in my experience, adding too much almost always translates to increased burn and less efficient (and more equity-wasting) use of capital. This constant state of fundraising can be draining on a founder/CEO and detrimental to the company. Account for optics.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. On paper, VC portfolios perform well.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. I was at the same event and Semil’s thoughts on “A dollar travels far before it reaches a founder” were spot on, but I wanted to elaborate a little more.

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JULY 29, 2020

One of the most important things that VC’s take note of is the impression created by your choice of co-founders. I like to say that selecting a co-founder is the single most dilutive decision that a founding CEO can make, and so that decision can send all sorts of signals about a founder’s priorities, judgement and personality.

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