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What do you give up when you take outside investors?

Berkonomics

Investor-friendly clauses in agreement There are also clauses in many such investor documents that allow the investor to override the founder and force a sale of the company if a proposed sale is attractive to an investor for liquidity, even if the founder feels that there is much more potential if the business is not sold at the present time.

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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

Both Sides of the Table

Asked to respond to the topic, “What collusion happens with AngelList, if any&# I wrote the following: “Um, let’s not be naive here and not think that a “form of collusion&# doesn’t happen on virtually any financing round. How well financed is the competition? Two emailed Marc Benioff directly.

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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

Both Sides of the Table

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). I was just super fortunate that since it listed our name in the email solicitation that an investor reached out to me to ask us about it.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Embracing Your Community as a Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I wanted to encourage more of our Limited Partner (LPs, or the people who invest in VC funds) to attend our annual meeting in person. I told him that I had observed every LP on their computers doing email and that clearly they were bored, to which he replied, “We like boring Powerpoint presentations. Enough was enough.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Superhuman **, my email client. But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory.

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Micro-VC fund management and capital account statements

David Cohen

Further, I thought it would also be appreciated by her more sophisticated high net worth investors, because many of them will have personal financing reporting prepared quarterly by a family office or personal accountant or tax planner. Rather than just sharing it with her in email, I’m posting that data here for the benefit of all.