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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In bad markets, they can be wiped out by recaps and liquidation preferences unless they save enough reserves to protect their positions.

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Should Entrepreneurs Attend Business School?

Up and Running

C Corp versus LLC, non-competes, liquidation preferences, preferred versus common stock, and so on). See Also How to Find a Business Partner. During our fundraising conversations, I’ve been constantly amazed by the percent of people I’ve spoken to in the venture capital community that have MBAs.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. This prevents automated programs from posting comments. Categories.

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Has convertible debt won? And if it has, is that a good thing?

VC Adventure

The most common forms of investment in early stage business are convertible debt and preferred equity. Typically this conversion is at a discount to the next equity round (to compensate the debt investors for their risk) and sometimes carries warrants (same rational) or a cap on the equity price that the debt converts into.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

1M/1M Program has a bold mission. I had an opportunity to catchup with Sramana and we talked about the program. By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.