Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Media relationships. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

Information, relationships, pattern matching for marketplaces, SaaS, financial services, agriculture, media, etc etc – our backgrounds and/or portfolio suggest that we might have ability to help the founders move faster and with greater accuracy in testing their market hypotheses.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I find many CEOs/CFOs default to approaching the investors who have the most social media followers; who have spent the most money sponsoring events; or whom they met at an event. That said, venture capital is just one of many options to finance your business, and it’s typically the most expensive.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. “I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining [New Firm] as a Partner where I will continue to invest in great Founders across the industries I care about.”. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I’ve seen startup CEO’s send requests like, “can you please update our Cap Table with the latest stock option allocations approved at the board meeting?&# My email response (in my head, not sent), “can you please waste more money having expensive lawyers do something that you could / should easily do for free?

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. I don't want to see any more of you with crappy business guys ruining your great ideas, ok?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. Emergent Research Selected Media. social media.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m particularly interested in how language once used supportively for empowerment by some female CEOs (#girlboss) can then be used negatively by media and detractors later on. Of course, media scrutiny doesn’t exist in a vacuum. How do you help female leaders navigate this potential bias?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. We’re back in the “feel good angel&# phase.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We gain insight into the management style of portfolio company management by assessing their social media activities and digital exhaust, e.g., I use Fullcontact as my “chief of staff” to brief me on the interests and backgrounds of the people I meet. 6) Negotiate deal. Accompany focuses on this use case.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

Despite being the smallest line on a founder’s cap table, we were often one of the first calls they made when confronted with a problem to solve or opportunity to consider. 0x Angels love to talk about their success on social media, making it about them, not the company. And relationships are long term equities.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Maybe the CEO got his cousin from Omaha to be their lawyer or theres been some serious messing around with the cap table. If you get an option grant for a million shares and youre employee 25, something is funky. Either way, its a sign that something is amiss.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We met Ryan Holmes in 2009 as he was just about to spin Hootsuite out of Invoke Media, a development agency. Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. Carta went on to become the standard for cap table management and is a unicorn many times over. .

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media. Insight into a negotiating partner’s social media activities and digital exhaust to inform negotiation tactics can be helpful during deal negotiations.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Plus, if the business doesn’t raise enough the capital in the first round to become self-sustaining, the crowdfunding round’s cap table and/or terms may make the deal unattractive or not doable for follow-on, institutional investors. One way is with early adopters who will champion your startup on social media.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. We know it’s important to keep the cap table clean, and we want to focus on where/when we add value and then get out of the way.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

In that time, Twitter was just getting its sea legs, the Quora private beta was one of the hottest tickets in town, and TechCrunch was the de facto powerhouse in tech/startup media attention. This all has compounding effects leading to more deal opacity, which I outline in more detail below.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2012

Perhaps we'll find a scalable participation business model one day, but for now, it's been relgated to clever usage of social media that generates a lot of attention, but never really makes anyone much money. They're about "participation", sharing, and curation. Wordpress can't be the answer for publishing 20 years from now.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 23, 2023

I can vouch for his genuine optimism Hunter Walk: You got to work with a number of different VCs on your cap table for Anchor. If you’re building a media company, you’re near television, news, music, and film. Who was the best one and why was it Homebrew? There are so many other examples.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. And the good thing is, was it included people that were already in our cap table. If I had a food company, I just didn't want to know what the carbon footprint of the greenhouse gas offsets of the food I was making was.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And we see it in our media too. There is a lack of trust kind of happening in media and in government and I think there's fewer even religious people now, if I'm remembering correctly. But one of those pieces is how companies get formed, how they raise money, how they manage their cap table and how they eventually go public.

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Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

Plaid is known within the startup and VC community as a strong company, but it is also a relatively quiet company in terms of its own PR and social media chatter. Earlier today, the news leaked that Visa was to acquire fintech startup Plaid for $5.3B.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2017

What we see is that more and more female founders want women on their cap table: A couple of founders have re-opened rounds for us; one even got a major investor to sell us secondary. The flip side of that was the huge amount of control it put in the hands of people who owned media companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Despite the media narrative, this isn’t what killed The Wing. WeWork needed billions in a cap table crushing lifeline and Knotel went bankrupt as well. Things looked more than great. So, what happened?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

These combined effects have helped open new markets, new geographies, and new economic opportunities for people worldwide; they’ve also drawn the ire of privacy advocates, aspiring politicians, and the airwaves on social media and the traditional media at-large. 3/ The Streaming Media Effect. That’s the politics.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

They have an obvious trade-off between a big “pop” (great media coverage and morale boost) versus more cash proceeds. These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction. How should we allocate between the various Firm businesses to maximize value to GS? How much “say” do the issuers have?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? How many years did VCs continue to pour money into these companies before there was ever a “what if” board conversation? Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?

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