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On Funding?—?Shots on Goal

Both Sides of the Table

million, and we can write as little as $250k or as much as $15 million in our first check (we can follow on with $50 million + in follow-on rounds) We build a portfolio that is diversified given the focus areas of our partners. The outcome of this is that each partner does about 2 new deals per year or 5.5 We do other things, too.

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The Basics of Small Business Loans [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

I think that the team from Palo Alto Software, I think I saw some partners that are in this area that just focus on that early stage business. They’re a great partner of ours, for the most part have been doing a lot for free for startups to give them access to angel investment. They look at the opportunity and they provide funding.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

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Given that many companies are doing convertible note bridge financings as their seed round, this seems to come up relatively often. Reply # Anon · May 5, 2007 Yokum, We were able to get our bridge note shares not included as part of the premoney fully-diluted shares outstanding.