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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. Debt also has a due date and interest rate to negotiate. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship. ” The Cost of Financing.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. So we think about scaling a lot.

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Disturbing

Austin Startup

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. I recall that MSA’s stock increased 5X or thereabouts after our deal, which by no means implies that Peachtree deserved sole credit for all that. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. In 2010, I started building a software that analyzed why websites ranked highly on Google’s SERP. As a financial planner, money was my stock in trade; however, I discovered true wealth was in good health and relationships.

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Want to Give Your Business a Quick and Easy Boost?

Growthink Blog

Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. And putting out there the “story” behind the numbers - the talent, work ethic, and integrity of our people, the suredness of our IP, the thoughtfulness of our product development roadmap, the sustainable competitive advantage of our operational cost structure, and the like.

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