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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. I know you emailed me and I emailed you back. At night I had a group dinner where I met 6 new entrepreneurs and hung out with some old friends from law firms, banks and other VC funds. But it’s only Tuesday.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

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SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Don’t lose this game. share to $1.00/share:

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Finance | Tuesdays. Email address: Home. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Innovation | Fridays.

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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. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing.

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How to pick a co-founder

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Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. Subscribe Contact A poem: We read every email, but cant respond to most, or we wouldnt have time, to write a post. founders@venturehacks.com

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How to Raise a Seed Round: Three Basic Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

Emailing or cold-calling them generally doesn’t work. Indeed, this is critical in order to effectively negotiate any transaction (including a financing) – as every investment banker on Wall Street understands. The hard part, of course, is getting in front of “A” investors to pitch your startup.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends.