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[Continue Reading]How investors can fight terror
Historically, many investors have tried hard to be apolitical. But US political dysfunction has forced many investors to become active in domestic politics, and Hamas’s war on Israel forces many of us to fight Hamas. You might think I condemn Hamas because I am both Jewish and Israeli. But that is not the reason. First,...
[Continue Reading]Worth Groundbreaking Women Summit: Diversifying the Cap Table
I was honored to be the only male speaker (other than Worth personnel) presenting at last week’s Worth Groundbreaking Women Summit. It was an honor to meet Jim McCann, principal of the family office which owns Worth. I was on a panel on Diversifying the Cap Table with La Keisha Landrum-Pierre, General Partner at Emmeline...
[Continue Reading]What should VCs do with zombie companies?
Inevitably, some of a VC’s portfolio companies will become “zombies”: not dead, but not growing. They have some technology and revenues, but morale is low. The CEO is hinting he’d like to get into VC or otherwise find a soft landing. Finding a buyer is difficult, because the company is not exciting to anyone, including...
[Continue Reading]How Tiferes Ventures Uses AI to Make Better Investments
Tiferes Ventures is an AI-centric VC firm founded by Clark Valberg, co-founder and former CEO of InVision. Tiferes believes in eating their own dogfood, and recently organized an internal hackathon, in which all team members had to experiment with creating Custom GPTs for the respective processes they ran. Michael Rubin, SVP Strategy and Chief Legal Officer,...
[Continue Reading]Managing and Presenting to Your Board
I am delivering a webinar today for The Entrepreneur Cooperative (ECO) and Founder Org, a membership-based community for founders and CEOs of companies generating over $1 million in revenue. In this presentation, I discuss: Assembling and Managing your Board Running the Board Meeting Running Startup Experiments Preparing the Board Agenda and Deck and I include...
[Continue Reading]How Influencers Can Legally Raise Capital for Funds and Companies
How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry. However, as far as I...
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