Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

As this is a new initiative for this blog, we especially welcome your feedback. “We don’t give you all this Pro plan information right away when you join SlideShare. As this is a new initiative for this blog, we especially welcome your feedback. Did you find this post useful? Except it didn’t take off.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Most corporate VCs today understand the rights and responsibilities of startup minority shareholders, and don’t try to push for onerous requirements like ROFR on an acquisition or egregious information rights.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

If you just need the money, stick unknown angels in an AngelList Syndicate so they have more limited information rights. 10x Angels gather info about the market from non-media sources and only contact the team when it’s actionable, such as “Hey, this PhD was talking about you guys on his blog.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 22, 2012

It was a company called Burbn, and the idea was roughly to build a mobile micro blogging service. However, we still had a problem: because we had invested in Kevin’s seed round, we had both information rights and pro rata rights to the series B. When we invested in Instagram, it wasn’t actually Instagram.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Aaron Weiche: Yeah, what we have seen more is that evening out a lot more, and no surprise, right? When you have all of this information right in the palm of your hand in your smartphone, I think that’s really increased the access, and the amount of people wanting to rely on those things. Aaron Weiche: Absolutely.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

It is true that most notes are lighter when it comes to rights and protective provisions for the investors — in fact with most notes there is no Board put into place, no information rights, no pro-rata rights, etc. Every first time founder needs to learn what it means to manage a board.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Why people think it’s about tactics is obvious: lots of blog posts out there tell you so. Some blog posts even give you complete lists of conversion optimization techniques ( never mind that there is no such thing as a CRO technique ). Edwards Deming. Make the button bigger/orange/round and you get 212% lift on average!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 27, 2010

With so many advertising channels on the net, you can test any idea easily and extremely fast using PPC or even posting on a blog, like I did. They have to want the information, and they have to want it now. Use forums, blogs and any other platform where your potential audience can be found. The key is desperation and urgency.

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ConversionXL

MAY 20, 2014

The best way to get this information is to create a feedback loop that collects information right after they sign up, but before the course begins, so they’re fresh in the “I’m going to solve my problem” mindset.

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