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The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table?

Version One Ventures

Some of the best later-stage investors walk founders through an institutionalized “reverse” pitch. How do you decide who you should have in your cap table? Are you looking for help and expertise in hiring, product strategy, customer development, fundraising, coaching, therapy, etc.? What is important to you?

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder?

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money

Spencer Fry

What tends to give are what you really need to be focusing on most at the start of your business: customer development, customer outreach, marketing, copy, and design. As a bootstrapped startup, the only accountability you have is to yourself and to your co-founder if you have one. Having great accountability.