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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. For lessons from Matt and his Return Path management team, many of who are now execs at Bolster, you want to read Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

In the last several years, you’ve seen more investors engaging with companies in non-core geographies. Part of this is due to factors that will continue to persist or even accelerate, like more experience managing remote or distributed teams, a more rapid flow of information, and multiple large successes outside of Silicon Valley.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. For lessons from Matt and his Return Path management team, many of who are now execs at Bolster, you want to read Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams.

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The Future of Startup Funding

www.paulgraham.com

VCs are much morelikely to make angel-sized investments than they were a year ago.And meanwhile the past year has seen a dramatic increase in a newtype of investor: the super-angel, who operates like an angel, butusing other peoples money, like a VC. Though a lot of investors are entering this territory, there isstill room for more.

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The Gust-DEMO Fall 2012 Scholarship

Gust

The Gust-DEMO scholarship gives you and your company the chance to launch in front of a world-renown audience of leading investors, top enterprise and consumer technology press, and big company strategists. Have a business plan and a management team capable of delivering the product to market. SCHOLARSHIP.

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How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks

Both Sides of the Table

Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 If a VC prices a flat or down round it means that management teams are often taking too much dilution. Many investors can also be the opposite situation where you’re so successful that everybody wants to invest.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

Feld Thoughts

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC. .”

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