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What’s New In Venture Deals, 4th Edition

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How to Engage an Investment Banker (with help from Golding Partners). Legal Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know. The new chapters in this edition are 11. Venture Debt (with help from SVB), and 17.

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How Not To Start A Relationship

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I’ve suddenly become very popular with investment bankers and have been on the receiving end of over 50 emails that look something like the following: “We met once a long time ago when I was with firm X. In the last month I’ve had the chance to make about 50 new friends. I’m now at firm Y.

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Techstars Equity Back Guarantee

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While I wish my lawyers, accountants, and investment bankers offered a money back guarantee, I accept that isn’t changing anytime soon. Our terms for going through Techstars are unchanged, but if at the end of the program you aren’t delighted, you can ask for some or all of your equity back.

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Public Closing Dinner For Gnip/Twitter Deal – #BoulderWin

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The people in the room are the founders of the company, the executives, the board members, other major investors, the lawyers who worked on the deal, and the investment bankers – if any were involved. The wine is expensive and the toasts are many. I’ve been to more of these than I can remember.

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Grinfucking

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I first heard the word “ grinfucker ” a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. He said, in response to a meeting we were in with a person who was very polite and charming “he’s such a grinfucker.”

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Techstars and The Nature Conservancy

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One of my favorite ideas of his is that we can ensure more financial resources go toward conservation by getting the world to fully appreciate the opportunity to invest in nature. Earlier this year, Amy encouraged me to get together with Brian McPeek , TNC’s Chief Conservation Officer, who is based in Denver.

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Kroll’s Diner Bismarck Marathon

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So I got both first and last place on age, depending how you slice it (kind of like how investment bankers do their league tables.) It was a small marathon – I finished #100 (out of 124) marathons, #1 (out of 1) for 45 year olds, but #10 (out of 10) for the 45-49 age group.