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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

” Ressi also says that the percentage of companies with convertible debt that successfully raise Series A funding is shrinking, due to an explosion in new angel financings and just moderate growth in venture funding. Company: Founder Institute. Website: fi.co. Launch Date: April 16, 2009.

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Should Investors in the Same Round of Financing Ever Get Different Prices?

Both Sides of the Table

If you do a capped note it’s bad for the entrepreneur. But Paul Graham really did have a point in his “ high resolution fundraising ” post – that there is a problem – particularly in angel financing – with herding cats. I recently wrote about my views that startups rounds should be priced.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

ReadWriteStart

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. peerbackers. Quipu Applications.

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VC Seed Funding Example: Trada

Feld Thoughts

Niel and I hammered out a second financing in similar fashion (again around the Foundry conference table, this time without the need for an angel roadshow). It’s a great example of how we like to work with entrepreneurs – especially those that we have a long history with.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

So pervasive has this thinking become that on several occasions startup companies with profitable & fast growing services businesses have come to me wanting to show me the product businesses they created internally to see whether they would be financeable or whether they might be able to create “spin outs&# that could be financed.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West). My general opinion is that anything that makes the financing process faster and easier or otherwise educates entrepreneurs is a good thing. (A In a typical venture financing, there is a voting agreement that governs how specific board seats will be filled.

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