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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. Is that when it became big? Human Computer Interaction.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places. Belief #3: Outlier Companies Can Be Built Anywhere.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places. Belief #3: Outlier Companies Can Be Built Anywhere.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. We didn’t waste any time from signing the term sheet to getting started on working on the company — even before the financing closed, which happened on Thursday, April 2nd.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Term Sheet. Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Term Sheet.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.