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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

It was an amazing gathering of some of the most ambitious early-stage CEO’s looking to make a dent in fields related to healthcare, biology, AI and other transformative fields. A Short Presentation I was invited to do a keynote presentation at the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit this week in Sausalito.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similarly, when Flexible VC structures are based off of the founder’s own compensation (often via salary or dividends), investors are specifically tying their returns to the financial success of the founder. Founder Earnings” (Founder Salaries + Dividends + Retained Earnings). Profits, Founder Salaries, and/or Dividends Declared.

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8 Entrepreneur Mistakes That Turn Off Real Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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HealthDataInsights Sells for $400 Million. Big Win for GRP Partners.

Both Sides of the Table

The tech market is filled with many stories of early-stage funding. HealthDataInsights (HDI) is a company that helps to recover money for the government or private insurers who have been incorrectly billed or fraudulently charged. It’s even more exciting when you can report an exit of a company that is a major win.

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8 Funding Proposal Red Flags Every Startup Can Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

But the problem with this is that most VCs in the Valley, especially early stage ones, only like to invest in companies that are within driving distance from their offices. The rest of Asia is still developing with far more angel and early-stage investors than mid-to-later stage folks.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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