Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Yes, non-voting common shares (if converted).
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Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 7, 2013
This check is for The Community Foundation and for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) and results from a gift of 24,793 shares of common stock from Rally at the time of its first financing that represented approximately 1% of the equity of the company. I remember numerous conversations with Ryan about this.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
If angel investors are pressuring you to set up a board and if you don’t have the leverage to push back a little then I might suggest a 3-person board in which all 3 seats are appointed by the common stock and you agree to appoint one of these seats to the angel investor but perhaps make it either time based or event based.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
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. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others.
Up and Running
AUGUST 28, 2019
Ideally, you will interview a few candidates and pick the partners you feel comfortable working with for a long time. Don’t let an overly-specific name restrict your product offerings later. . LegalZoom also provides many related services and products that might help guide your new business in the right direction. .
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 26, 2020
Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion dollar products at all. a game, we are looking for a product that ends up becoming wildly popular, more popular than anyone thought it could be in the early days.
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