Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2012

b) I’d be willing to take less for the right opportunity. Of course there are no right or wrong answers. A couple of additional points: 1) Even if the candidate has expressed salary requirements during the screening process or during your discussions, I strongly recommend you have this written conversation as the final step before you make an offer. For example, perhaps your conversations along the way changed their perspective on salary requirements for the position.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2011

Here are the issues I have addressed to date: common mistakes dealing with VC’s valuation liquidation preferences stock options exploding term sheets and no-shop provisions anti-dilution provisions dividends Board control protective provisions drag-along provisions pay-to-play and pull-up provisions In today’s post, I examine conversion rights of investors. Conversion Rights What Are Conversion Rights? What Are Optional Conversion Rights?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2011

Getting the Google Plus Conversation Right This content from: Duct Tape Marketing If you still haven’t joined Google Plus click here – 150 invites Benson Kua via Flickr One of the most interesting things about Google’s new social network, Google Plus, is the conversation that participation generates. Some still attribute this to the newness factor, but it’s one of the things that really makes Google Plus exciting right now.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 13, 2011

” - @alexanderljung [link] (at 27:02) Walker Blog-Related In case you missed it, here’s my post regarding conversion rights of investors in a Series A term sheet: [link] How Do I Raise Seed Capital If I Don’t Know Any Investors? [link]. Twitter Highlights bubble conversion rights facebook Marc Andreessen seed financing Series A tech term sheets

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 27, 2011

There is, however, another set of rights with which many entrepreneurs may not be familiar: State law rights. These are rights granted to stockholders pursuant to the respective laws of the company’s State of incorporation and are often the only rights that minority common stockholders have. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to examine these non-contractual rights. 1) Inspection Right. 2) Right to Bring a Derivative Claim.

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Hippoland

JULY 31, 2016

This is a typical conversation I’ll have with portfolio founder about his/her meeting with another seed venture capitalist (VC). One thing I’ve noticed in the short time that I’ve been doing this job is that conversations with VCs that feel like they’re going well typically are not. So in fact, my conversations with entrepreneurs that are the easiest are the ones I’ve already decided to pass on. “So how do you think your meeting went?” “Oh, it went really well!”

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I see Visible Networking as a series of conversations around blog posts, and encouraging a group of people to actively participate. Yes, blogs has been touted as a place to have conversations, but Tony is doing Visible Networking by starting the conversation in a blog post, then continuing the conversation in the comments. And, since he's using a public blog anyone can join the conversation. Right now the conversation is about visible networking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Simple find a post and then over there to right of the post click the little arrow drop down and hit “View Ripples” Once you do this you’ll be treated to a mind map kind of view of all of the shares, comments and spokes of conversation. Google Plus Adds New Features This content from: Duct Tape Marketing.

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 15, 2012

What Happens If a Startup is Acquired Prior to the Note’s Conversion to Shares of Preferred Stock? One of the tricky issues that founders must address in the note is what happens if their startup is acquired prior to the note’s conversion (and prior to the note’s maturity date, as discussed below). 2) Conversion Right (Investor-Friendly). What Happens If the Maturity Date Is Reached Prior to the Note’s Conversion to Shares of Preferred Stock?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Yet digital marketers have only recently recognized that applying this decades-old research to online forms can generate more leads and sales—and upend the conversion optimization best practice of “shorter forms equal more conversions.”. Shorter forms increase conversions, right? 14% drop in conversion. Aagaard realized that shortening a form left only high-friction fields, reducing conversion rates.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2013

We talk about creating high converting landing pages , getting traffic that converts , and making the most out of your conversion points quite a bit here. But what we don’t talk about are outside of the box landing page strategies you can use to increase conversions right away. On that note, for these strategies to work it’s vital you consider the environment the visitor is coming from, and the conversion you’d like to take place. Too many emails, right?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Six months ago Seth helped me buy a bike – I’ve been mixing it in all summer with my marathon training, discovered Strava, learned how to shift gears properly, had started to learn what gear I should be in, experienced several back to back 30 mile training rides, and started to learn about how doping worked since that seems to be the central theme of many cycling conversations right after detailed descriptions of accidents.

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Bryce Dot VC

MARCH 5, 2015

The equity conversion right remains in place even if the 5x cap is hit. We fully anticipate that any future funding from VCs will also require us to waive any rights we have to future cash distributions and we are prepared to do so. One unique aspect of the Indie.vc terms is the option for founders to make cash distributions to investors from profits as a return on their investment instead of selling out or taking their company public to create a liquidity event.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Here are the issues I have addressed to date: common mistakes dealing with VC’s valuation liquidation preferences stock options exploding term sheets and no-shop provisions anti-dilution provisions dividends Board control protective provisions drag-along provisions pay-to-play and pull-up provisions conversion rights non-contractual rights redemption rights In today’s post, I examine the non-binding and conditional language in term sheets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2013

At any given moment, there are literally millions of different conversations happening online, and some of these conversions could actually be related to your specific product or brand. Are you listening to these conversations? These conversations can offer vital information to further improve your business, product, and online reputation. Listen For The Right Reason. With the right social listening tools, you can find out where your targeted audience hangs out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, the transcript of my conversation with Sydney, Ryan and Frank is below. Let's start with, are you all doing all right? Our house is kind of a disaster, I swear I clean it all the time, but it's very lived in right now. Right? And so I think that we're doing the work right now. So what were you doing right as the pandemic unfolded?

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 7, 2011

Here are the issues I have addressed to date: common mistakes dealing with VC’s valuation liquidation preferences stock options exploding term sheets and no-shop provisions anti-dilution provisions dividends Board control protective provisions drag-along provisions pay-to-play and pull-up provisions conversion rights In today’s post, I examine the redemption rights of investors. Redemption Rights What Are Redemption Rights?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So be sure to make a free user account and participate in the offline conversation there. As we wait for our first callers to come on board, I wanted to start with a question from a conversation that Bob and I with Merck Coulbrougiff [sounds like] from Beta List [SP]. Do you have an opinion on whether it’s better to create something real in a week or something small and real or keep looking for the right thing that’s gonna let you quit your day job? Right?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Aaron Weiche: We definitely see a very strong signal from the biggest window into the web through Google, that reputation really matters, and they are bringing it to the conversation right in that search result, very high, and very visible for a user to interact with. No one is void of reputation being part of that decision, and the best way I summarize this is, we have every option available to us when we do a search now, right? I call them … right?

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ConversionXL

JULY 17, 2015

Full transcript: Peep Laja: Right, okay. So let’s get right to it. Lukas: Right, so you decide up front how long you’re going to run the test, you run the test that long. ” Peep: All right, so let’s say that I estimate, whatever, 20% lift and I got the result in half an hour. Peep: All right. Peep: All right. Peep: All right. Peep: All right, so on the eCommerce side, lots of different types of pages. Peep: All right.

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