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Making Sense of the Stock Market Drops in Relation to Venture Financing

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If you didn’t notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation. You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. I’m not so sure.

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Should You Really Sit on Other Boards When You’re a Startup Founder?

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We have Ian Rogers , the CEO of Topspin Media on our board. Side note: Image is of “team awe.sm” – it seemed a better image than any of the cheesy stock photos of a boardroom. .” I have seen this first hand at awe.sm (coincidentally, a company in which Ryan McIntyre from Foundry Group is also on the board).

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options. And he said ok got it.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee. Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp?

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

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It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. Why is that? Even a hundred. That was the only way.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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My favorite two quotes of the weekend were: “Never trade your cat for somebody else’s dog” (referring to selling your company for stock to another privately held company – quote was from Alan. I really enjoyed learning more about Buddy Media and meeting Michael Lazerow. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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Otherwise you’re a stock picker, which in this business isn’t a good thing. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.