Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. And so forth.

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2015

Primal team leaders take specific steps to help people experience the appropriate levels of arousal and the optimal level of positive emotions because they know that such a state releases the utmost creativity. When team members experience heartfelt emotion, their creative ability ratchets up a notch.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Yes, you like hip-hop, “urban” clothing and “ ratchet television”, but all that sinks you deeper into stereotypes. You’re better off being more like the crowd [whom you’re targeting] and speaking from their experiences. Then share personal experiences that are complementary to their stories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

Along the way, from investors to suppliers to manufacturers, ANA Therapeutics had the unique experience of being a startup to which "no one said no, and everyone said yes." 25:42) How the new speed of biotech has changed their experience. (27:50) It sounds like you're having that experience. 38:43) What are the drug trials like?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Whether it’s planning a New Year’s Eve soiree or buying gifts for family members, employees may experience productivity dips when the holiday season is in full swing. Ratchet up your company’s social networking posts. See Also How to Be Productive, Even During Downtime.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” Using her experiences as a guide, we built a suite of tools that she wished she’d had during those tough two years. But as we tried to sell it—crickets.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I’ve seen every imaginable type of liquidation preference structure, pay-to-play dynamic, preferred return, ratchet, share/option bonus, option repricing, and carveout. I have two simple rules for founders in my head from this experience. You might have it in the bank already.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We ratcheted that up a lot in the last year, which is why we added the following statement in as one of our 14 Core Values : Think Global, Act Local. Think Global, Act Local. At Return Path , we have always had a commitment to community service and helping make the world around us a better place. Tennyson Center for Children.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 7, 2013

We’re going to create games for mobile devices for consumers (not for “clients”, which is my past experience). Connected experiences – watching TV and using your mobile device to create an enhanced viewing experience, for example – is still very much a work-in-progress. Why exactly?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

You get to figure things out from first principles all the time, experiment wildly, and invest heavily in what works. It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. From the outside, it looks a lot like chaos.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Not in my experience. At an accelerator …. And so forth.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2016

I can just picture Mr. Rogers saying "Children, can you say participating preferred stock with an uncapped 3x liquidation preference and a full ratchet?" This offers many of the benefits of angel groups (larger investment, breadth of experience, single entity) without many of the negatives (long process, lack of transparency, etc.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2016

And as they make these changes, the customer gets a better user-experience on the Google search engine, making the company’s reign at the top even less unassailable. Do this successfully and you will rank high, fail and you’ll slide down as the algorithms get tweaked against you.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 23, 2012

And Mr. Parthasarathi’s story is not an isolated one: In recent years, New York’s colleges and universities have ratcheted up their commitment to supporting budding entrepreneurs. We’re stressing an interdisciplinary, hands-on experience to find new ways to solve difficult problems.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But we experience a sort of residue in our attention that exists from the previous thing that we were just doing. A lot of that involves ratcheting down how stimulated we are by default because I think you got it right. It’s a simple tactic but it’s a way of ratcheting down how often you check.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  A full ratchet anti-dilution clause is very unfriendly to entrepreneurs; it requires them to make up the entire difference in price from their own holdings.   In my experience, overpayment is most often the second case rather than the first.   Posted at 04:19 PM in Funding startups | Permalink.   Search.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

I speak from experience here, where one of our business sites has a high portion of traffic from Nigeria for some reason, and not surprisingly this traffic simply does not convert. With continuous development it can lead to percentage improvements at each step, which ratchet up and can have a profound impact on the final revenue tally.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Further, it really seemed like the girls running the desks where picked out more for their appearance as opposed to experience. If the quality of the conference remained high, you could easily ratchet up the prices and just make it a must-attend event, even if you have to pay more than for an open event.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Other links: The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future is Now (HBR), Space Station Builds 3D-Printed Ratchet Wrench (NASA), Shapeways.com (3D printing marketplace). This is not something that you’ve got tons of experience in. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show?

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