YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

by Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. Offering flexible pricing (if you have the financial runway to do so) or sharing best practices and tips with traditional competitors will pay dividends in the long run. The post 4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

One of the exciting things about Forward Partners is that we’re blazing a trail in the investment world. Our model of backing entrepreneurs and then also investing heavily in a team and co-working space to support them is new. Examples include Forward Partners , Science Inc , aspects of Betaworks , and maybe Rocket Internet.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Some of my most satisfying projects are when we make improvements in, say, developer productivity that also pay a “security dividend”. If you are currently looking for a CTO or technical co-founder, I’ve included some resources below that may help you in your search. Security needs to be top of mind for any CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2010

But whether you’re raising money, selling to customers, looking to make an investment or whatever – listening pays more dividends than talking. I was interviewing the founder of a prominent company of which many of you would have heard. And a properly steered wide set of questions gives you facts you’d never expect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg can tell you a horror story about how his early informal breakup with a co-founder ultimately cost him a settlement later worth four billion dollars. A co-founder who loses interest and backs out early will likely be back to claim his half after you reach unicorn status.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). Dividend preference. Almost all startup companies don’t declare dividends, so deletion of a dividend preference is irrelevant to an investor. “ .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.”

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Now, a couple years on, he and his cofounders are taking a 5 million dividend apiece and it’s growing fast. So were my cofounders. So he designed a company and team that allowed him (and his partners) to spend close to 100% of his time doing what they’re very best at. Founders' Was he always this good?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It will usually be higher because the liquidation preference has a dividend so if the deal is long in the tooth assume that the liquidation preference might be $20-22 million. management, founders, angel investors) get any money. Liquidation preference is the amount of money that an investor gets paid before the common stock (e.g.

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The solution to scaling people is “culture”, which is just a way to spread how the founders work and make decisions to the rest of the team. Our founders have a history together, so we already knew how everyone worked and remote was fine. But the companies we partner with probably aren’t in the same situation.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

The most common (and emotional) screwing you’ll get in a startup is via your cofounders. First, some examples: A buddy of mine had done the hard work of finding two excellent tech cofounders. It’s not just cofounders. Partners can break their contracts. A solution at the end. Suppliers can fail to deliver.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. I wanted to make sure we got it out there, the idea of how does one find a good co-founder? That’s really the purpose of the pitch.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Jered Lawson. Chase Adam. This is it.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup. Usually those aren’t first-time founders though. It certainly did me.

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