Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Every town has firms that focus on startups – find them.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Common Stock Ask the Users Because we’re known as Startup/VC lawyers who don’t represent VCs (just companies), I often get asked about my thoughts on “founder friendliness.” 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.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. For the broader use case of helping startups execute their legal paperwork, Clerky is a focused solution. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

One difficult part in startup decision making is choosing the decisions to make. 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 make changes in the sales team? I could go on.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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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Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

Earlier today, the news leaked that Visa was to acquire fintech startup Plaid for $5.3B. 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. By now, folks realize how hot the “fintech” sector is. 2/ API FTW.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

WeWork needed billions in a cap table crushing lifeline and Knotel went bankrupt as well. Frankly, it’s the kind of narrative that had normally been reserved for men in the startup world—pitch a dream on a piece of paper, raise tens of millions from the likes of Sequoia, embody the visible visionary leader, grace the magazine cover.

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