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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. I’ve also made significant engineering contributions to our two other platforms, Admin (back-end portal for our data team) and Access (LP dashboard). I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

Capitalize - Regular pitch events where early stage companies get direct feedback from local VC’s. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Northeastern IDEA Venture Accelerator. Olin College Foundry Program. Smaller and High Quality Meetups. PopSignal - My favorite regular tech gathering.

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011. Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. 2011 Holiday. Disrupt SF.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. 88MPH was founded in Nairobi in 2011 and has since expanded to Cape Town and Lagos.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.