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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Always seek input.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Interesting to note that Hafner and English own common stock but also made meaningful investments in the Series A & B rounds.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. Typically promissory note or non-voting common stock, with covenants. Founder retains control. Cash collateral.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. Hire legions of young, impressionable graduates from the top engineering universities.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) leanstartup We organized our engineering team at IMVU to try and maximize cross-functional collaboration.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. Founders are taking control of the board by making the common stock the founders own more powerful.

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Must-Have Website Elements for Professional Services

Duct Tape Marketing

Your website has many jobs these days and should help you: Get found – Search engine optimization (SEO) should be a priority for your business to help you rise above the competition in search engine results pages. Do the best you can to avoid common stock photos. They make you appear less authentic.