Up and Running

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Net terms are not for everyone. Be clear: Spell out your terms. Identify your standard payment terms (30 days? If you offer different terms to different customers, make sure you’re not saying one thing to one customer, and putting something else on your website, for example. Start with these six simple tricks.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). 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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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Then, if you win the deal, you have major influence on the development of the start-up through negotiated governance mechanisms like board seats, information rights, anti-dilution rights, etc. But you also have almost no influence on the project in terms of governance.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Insurance is confusing stuff, and being able to take a complicated product and break it down into layman’s terms for someone is fulfilling and rewarding at the same time. With health care legislation in the balance right now, there’s a possibility that our nation might someday have single-payer insurance.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

Form of Convertible Security Term Sheet. Paul Graham also suggests that convertible debt is superior because it allows a company to easily provide different terms for different investors — for example, early investors may receive a lower price cap. These documents are available at the links below. Form of Convertible Security.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2016

In the world of SEO website code, you will hear terms like Structured Data, Schema and Rich Snippets. Rich Snippets : If your Structured Data coding is implemented correctly, the search engines will use the Structured Data on your website to display key information right into the search results page.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2021

Your best bet is to do it early in the process before you have a term sheet, and do it as an exploratory conversation. The conversation with an existing independent director about leaving the board when their term is up. Otherwise, your talking points are the same as talking to an existing investor above.

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Austin Startup

MAY 17, 2017

Know the difference between a Board Observer, Information Rights, and being a member of the Board of Directors. Most angel investors writing small checks are buying the right to a small portion of the Company, and that’s it. A step up from ‘information rights’ is a Board observer right.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Google Keyword Planner is always a good place to start, you can use it to see what search term people are using to find a site like yours. Reading material: Etsy offers a detailed archive, The Seller’s Handbook, available for perusal with information right from the horse’s mouth. Etsy-Related Resources.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2013

Also, never copy and paste product information right from the manufacturer’s site. You can also add “back to school” or similar terms to your listing titles to make these more visible to those searching for school items. But overusing words to try and get a higher search ranking can actually count against you.

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Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

There are essentially two distinct basic strategies for startup entrepreneurs to raise a seed round of capital: Subscription approach – An entrepreneur sets a structure (usually a convertible note) and recruits individual angel investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor.

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ConversionXL

MAY 20, 2014

The best way to get this information is to create a feedback loop that collects information right after they sign up, but before the course begins, so they’re fresh in the “I’m going to solve my problem” mindset. Remove items that are unnecessary to conversion. Finalist 4 – Mike Svystun, Vertalab.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 19, 2017

But you want to do this on your terms and timeline. If there’s a Scout on your cap table and you don’t know it, or don’t know what information they’re sharing – written, verbal or otherwise – it handicaps you as a founder.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Aaron Weiche: Yeah, what we have seen more is that evening out a lot more, and no surprise, right? When you have all of this information right in the palm of your hand in your smartphone, I think that’s really increased the access, and the amount of people wanting to rely on those things.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

If you just need the money, stick unknown angels in an AngelList Syndicate so they have more limited information rights. And relationships are long term equities. You can reference check angels just like you would VCs or employees. What are some differences btw 10x Angels and 0x Angels?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Note that I’m not saying that tactics don’t work, but you shouldn’t think in terms of tactics. The problem with being “data-driven” We should all be more data-driven (or data-informed), right? A good start would be to ignore / be skeptical of advice given by writers / professional bloggers.

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onstartups.com

JULY 11, 2012

If an Angel exits from one or two in the short term, that 2-4x return will allow them to help start more companies, more often. The major investors no longer provide early investors with Information Rights (the right to receive financial or strategic facts about the company). Avoid Dilution to Nothing. Keep In-The-Know.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

By contrast, when investors buy equity — they’re fully committed, they don’t have an option to get their money back (barring some ridiculous terms, which don’t really happen in the Valley) and their only choice is to help the company succeed or lose their money. Let’s say the the company is sold after one year.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 27, 2010

That’s as far as I got in terms of ‘planning’, because that was the plan. Think about your experiences and categorize them in terms of how useful the solutions or the lessons that you learned are, or may be , to somebody else with the same problem. They have to want the information, and they have to want it now.

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