Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

Executives run the day-to-day so often the board is more involved as a sparring partner at key intervals. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. That’s true. The administrative work we actually do at board meetings?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets.

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). We’ll have a fun conversation over the next 40-45 minutes. We’ll have a fun conversation over the next 40-45 minutes. Jonathan Siddharth .

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

To keep one step ahead of this, it’s worth exercising caution – consistently review your stock levels of core products and stay in touch with your suppliers to understand their constraints. Alternatively, if you have excess stock in certain areas, think about how you might promote it or if it’s worth attaching it to other orders.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. There is no middle ground. Resetting your priorities Taking money from these sources involves resetting priorities over time.

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2019

You will work closely with Joshua Baer, Gordon Daugherty, Bryan Chambers, the Ventures Team, limited partners, external venture capitalists, lawyers, accountants and startup CEO’s to review legal agreements, perform our diligence checklist, and make sure transactions close in a timely manner. Do you catch mistakes that other people miss?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That’s an accurate criticism and the public conversation about GPT-3 is not short of humorous examples. GPT-3 can be part of that solution by providing contextual answers (rather than selecting from an inventory of stock answers like typical bots) as well as creating first drafts of documents. Thinking Isn’t As Important As Doing.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Alongside top-tier co-investors like Bessemer Venture Partners, Capital Factory, Live Oak, Mark VC, Valar Ventures, S3, and so many others, we aspire to help these companies achieve their trailblazing potential. ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange. Breyer Capital Austin?—?End

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? Focus on the partner you would be working with. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

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. We’ve also become very adept at partnering with seed funds.

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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.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

At the time, Facebook wasn’t the goliath it is today and so, Choe was given a couple of options: he could have $60,000 in cash, or stock (equal to the equivalent amount of the cash back then). If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I won a fake stock market competition in elementary school. I put all my money in a few penny stocks — where prices are less than a dollar, and because of their small denomination, their value (as a percentage) fluctuates wildly. The converse of this is a business that has extra “and” clauses — even more than usual.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. The primary terms for these types of transactions are the valuation cap and the conversion discount. ” The Cost of Financing.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

For some reason there’s a stigma around cash vs. equity conversation and it seems to offend some founders that people have limits for what they will do on an equity-only basis. I would think that if you are trying to attract people on an equity-only basis you wouldn’t want to get too far into the conversation without raising the issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

million, and we can write as little as $250k or as much as $15 million in our first check (we can follow on with $50 million + in follow-on rounds) We build a portfolio that is diversified given the focus areas of our partners. The outcome of this is that each partner does about 2 new deals per year or 5.5 We do other things, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Overvalued stocks have been called "frothy’" for some time, but now the term is being tossed around in lieu of the word "bubble" in the new world of perceived overvalued startups. How many of the terms defined above have you personally used in a conversation or explained in the context of your startup?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We’re seeing about a 70 to 75 conversion rate from appointments in terms of purchase ,” said Joanna Griffiths , Founder and CEO. As we began to experiment with ways to keep that connection alive we knew one thing — we had to find somewhere local that we could partner with, to still offer curbside pickup. Micro-retail.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

As a starting point the more you’re on their mind the more likely they’re out advocating on your behalf when they are out talking with senior executives at potential customers, future potential investors, potential employees, biz dev partners, journalists and all of the other constituencies where investors should be helping you.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

At the end of the day Kayak’s playing a key role in the online travel process, but it appears more of the revenue comes from filling top of the conversion funnel rather than the middle or bottom of it. 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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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 3, 2018

The big news this morning is that Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the New York Stock Exchange, announced the formation of a new company, Bakkt, a global platform to allow consumers and institutions to buy, hold and store digital assets. Its first use cases will be for trading and conversion of Bitcoin versus fiat currencies.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Indulge in an activity you enjoy, whether reading a book, watching a movie, or talking to your partner. You can explore the buymyweedonline menu to stock up on your favorite product. Conversely, you can opt for a THC-dominant one to relax at the end of the day.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Often partners like to bring along an analyst or associate both as a way to help train younger staff (it’s an apprentice business) and also to have somebody to follow up on action items. This can be practical for both parties if this is a senior partner already sitting on 10–12 boards. To be clear about one thing?—?almost

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

They will typically ask a question about your business and the conversation begins! Stock Option. If something highly confidential is undergoing patent protection, you won’t be expected to disclose the patentable aspects until much further into the conversation. You can do this anywhere. Customer References. Personal References.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I truly believe in the quiet hours of the beginning of the day, this is my chance to thank Hashem for what I have and to stock up on some positive energy. When I am not with the child or learning, I tend to meet my senior employees, large-scale clients or potential strategic partners at a restaurant for dinner.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. Over the past 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price? Every year I invited my largest investors to NYC to have an LPAC meeting (Limited Partner Advisory Committee?—?kind We do lunch where everybody has a casual conversation followed by 6 hours of content and discussion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

How To Connect, Converse, And Convert Through Social Media Listening written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She’s also the author of a new book — Conversations That Connect: How to Connect, Converse, and Convert Through Social Media Listening and Social-Led Customer Care. BSquared.media. Like this show?

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Spencer Fry

AUGUST 20, 2018

As an example of this, you can spot it by looking at the homepage of any startup that looks like it was built with a Wordpress template, stock photography, bland, robotic copy, and a bunch of features spewed on the screen. Maybe you're not at a point of being able to afford to do anything custom, that's fine.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

After that conversation, I called around to learn more about Brian, Joe and Nate, and I got really strong references. The story continued to take unexpected twists and turns the next day after the Greylock partner meeting. Then other partners like James Slavet supported the idea, thinking it was actually pretty interesting.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

If the answers are no, have an honest conversation with your VCs today. Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation. After all, you’ve likely given your employees stock options which make them part-time business owners as well. Can you produce venture returns in this new economic reality?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. it could be your next investor or a big customer or the next president of the U.S. or maybe just #GrumpyCat. Will ICOs make a comeback?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

You get dilution sensitive and you start optimizing on price of a financing deal, versus finding the right partners or raising enough money to grow. The right partner goes to bat for you during the recruiting process—helps you identify and court the hires that you look back at as key to your success.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster!

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I recall that MSA’s stock increased 5X or thereabouts after our deal, which by no means implies that Peachtree deserved sole credit for all that. Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. I got the message. May you be disturbed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Our fund (Upfront Ventures) recently returned >1x an entire $200 million fund just selling small minatory in secondary sales while still holding most of our stock for an ultimate public market exits. each with partners as the lead. That never would have happened 10 years ago. Where are Things Headed for VC in 2031?

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