www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

  With Series Seed: ·    Costs should be roughly the same (if not cheaper) than using industry standard debt documents.  In sum, Series Seed creates a level playing field between capped debt and equity documents in terms of speed and cost.    This is EXACTLY why I created the Series Seed Documents. 

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

One of my favorite lines in buried in the middle: “I’ve heard enough companies say “we simply can’t cut costs or it will hurt the long-term potential of the business” to get a wry smile. Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” It’s simply not true.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

In fact, the main competitive advantage that these startup executives see for doing business overseas is cost. Its very charter utterly excludes the notion of fostering development, opting instead for a one-way ratchet that can only lead to longer, more costly development cycles with no improvement in real safety for efficacy.” “Our

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. At an accelerator …. My colleague: Whoa. Actually not.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 7, 2013

That’s huge because it was two years ago and that number is likely closer to 15% now, and mobile games are a fraction of the cost of console games. Apple has made sure they are in a ton of living rooms with their low-cost AppleTV and Google just started the process by ditching Google TV (essentially) and rolling out Google Chromecast.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

But in the third quarter, venture debt deal value fell by half to $4.7 billion, the lowest quarterly volume since Q3 2017, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. The reason is that as interest rates increase, the debt becomes costly capital to return. CVCs have participated in 25.6% of VC deal count and 45.1% of deal value.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These students are typically attracted to Internet and technology start-ups, given that these share favourable industry characteristics such as significant addressable markets, low barriers to entry, modest initial capital requirements and relatively low costs of customer acquisition. These entrepreneurs soon find out it is not.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  It is very expensive if you’re the entrepreneur since it doubles the cost to the company of paying dividends to the entrepreneur.   A full ratchet anti-dilution clause is very unfriendly to entrepreneurs; it requires them to make up the entire difference in price from their own holdings.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2016

In effect, it’s like a ratchet that will constantly wind up more tightly and thereby twist SEO and PR closer together until one day they aren’t just friends but they are one and the same. The quest for new ideas and new content, on the other hand, is both a far more labor intensive and costly enterprise.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 12, 2010

It's probably the same price as the costs of staff to man the registration desks. If the quality of the conference remained high, you could easily ratchet up the prices and just make it a must-attend event, even if you have to pay more than for an open event. Let me print out my own badge. Or Loic will simply continue running it as is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. And taking on too many projects at once is a classic sub-optimization. Sure, it seems efficient. But when there is a task half-done, its actually slowing the team down. Not necessarily.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. Moreover, once high-flying startups began to struggle on the fundraising trail.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Other links: The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future is Now (HBR), Space Station Builds 3D-Printed Ratchet Wrench (NASA), Shapeways.com (3D printing marketplace). In addition to that top line revenue, you’re also going to have your major expenses, you’re going to have your costs, those kinds of things. Peter: Okay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

And we think that we should run a Phase 3 clinical trial on this drug and we just need to order 15 kilograms," and that'll roughly cost about $500,000. And often what we're seeing in these hydroxychloroquine studies is a big ratcheting of a typical dose. You ratchet up a drug that has known side effects.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

A decade ago, China recognized that its initial success as the world’s low-cost factory was going to run its course. As the cost of Chinese labor increased, other countries like Vietnam could fill that role. There’s a high probability Taiwan will still refuse despite all of this, so China would then ratchet up the pressure.

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