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Entreprenuer Network

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. Imagine what open source could do to the law.

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. Compensation : base salary, share of profits of management company, carry. Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives.

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Model Series Seed Docs

The Startup Lawyer

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. The drafters also anticipate a management rights letter will be included in order to ensure “Venture Capital Operating Company&# compliance for the VC investor(s). (3) 4) Term Sheet.

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Job interviews go both ways (My story with Netscape in ’98)

Diego Basch

I was told that I was interviewing to replace employee #7 (everyone talked about their own employee number) who was leaving because he was fully vested that month (red flag). One manager talked about how they were a bit bummed because Yahoo had just surpassed their market valuation. At first glance I was impressed with the place.

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Model Series Seed Docs

The Startup Lawyer

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. The drafters also anticipate a management rights letter will be included in order to ensure “Venture Capital Operating Company&# compliance for the VC investor(s). (3) 4) Term Sheet.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.