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Post-Seed Funding Checklist for Founder/CEOs

Genuine VC

Funding Announcement Figure out your PR strategy for announcing the round to get your plan in order. Communications with New Board & Investors Ensure all of your investors have all legal documentation of the round, including an electronic version of the final cap table.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. I worked with Sam Angus at Fenwick & West. He’s totally tapped into the startup communities in Silicon Valley and a bit in LA. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm. Good people and evil people.

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“Founder Friendly”

Austin Startup

You very rarely hear about this on blog posts or twitter, but when the pep rallies and PR-oriented speaking panels come to an end, it is there. A truly “balanced” Board will prevent one part of the cap table’s incentives and preferences from overriding those of the others.

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

David Teten

EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. Satisfying LP demands and streamlining the valuation process are primary drivers in those clients’ adoption of Ipreo’s portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions, iLEVEL, iVAL, and Qval. .

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Deciding What to Decide

Austin Startup

Do you need to pour more dollars into marketing and PR? If you do eventually expose your company to those professionals, all your dumb shareholders will get crushed in the new cap table. Do you presume there’s some price elasticity and decide to try a lower price? Are you marketing in the right places? I could go on.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.

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Quickly Unpacking Visa’s $5.3B Acquisition Of Plaid

Haystack

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.