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Seed Stage Founders Undervalue Angels With Marketing & Comms Expertise

Hunter Walker

Why Bringing These Two Skillsets Onto Your Cap Table Early Is Worth It. In addition to our dollars, we are eager to help founders with the construction of their cap table, not just generically with the highest profile folks available, but more specifically where they might get some help along the way. Nor Do VCs.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). 8) Monitor and report investments. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). 8) Monitor and report investments. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Advisors aren’t pokemon (but they are magical)

The Startup Toolkit

You probably don’t need to get the cap table involved in that. Sometimes the answer will be to do customer development or to add unit tests or to build a landing page. In general, if you just need to get over a one-time hump, you can lean on friendly folks, do a little book learning, and move on.

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

David Teten

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Streak , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs.

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

Version One Ventures

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.? The post The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table? What is important to you?

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Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money

Spencer Fry

With no money, how do you expect to have great design, engineering, copy, marketing, content marketing, customer service, operations, and everything else that comes along with running a successful startup. Something has to give. These are all things that, in 2017, can’t be overlooked as “I’ll get to them eventually”.