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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part IV "Negotiating the Startup Offer"

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This post doesn’t going into general tactical approaches of job offer negotiation, but rather focuses on the fact that with startups a significant part of compensation is related to equity or options. So optimizing a startup offer involves not just one key figure – salary – but also the option package.

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The Risks of Becoming an Advisor When You (Might) Want Something More

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A few days ago, a friend who works at a growing startup emailed me with the following question (in which I’ve masked just a few of the identifying details): I caught up with a friend of mine from high school that has started a new company where my skills are very pertinent. Spending 20 hours a month is fairly significant amount of time.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

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According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. Instead, startups are now empowered to create focused services which benefit a small niche audience. Happy New Year and welcome to 2013.

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Optimizing Series A Fundraising Around…Partnership Buy-In

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Whether a startup’s initial Seed round is comprised of individual angels, seed-focused funds, larger VCs , or some combination of the three, when it’s time for the entrepreneur to raise a true Series A round, of course the goal is run a process to “optimize” it.

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Never Raising Capital Ever Again

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Seed financing direct to long-term profitability is often both a realistic and laudable goal, especially given capital efficiency of internet-enabled startups. Any additional capital fundraising, whether it’s for debt or equity, startup or mature public company, is to facilitate growth ahead of cash flows generated by the business. (Or

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The Road to Our Investment in Bridj

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This year, though, a local startup called Bridj has been making headlines by taking a fundamentally new approach to thinking about mass transportation. The startup utilizes machine learning algorithms to become smarter as more users enter the system, striving towards the goal of a “living, breathing, and thinking” transportation system.