Email Naming Partner Term Sheet 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. What do I do now?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2012
You’re heading into a full partner meeting and you’ve been asked for a full data pack before – should you give it? If you show a list of key customers or key business partners and if this list is sensitive (READ: If you don’t want VCs calling them) then you need to make it explicit with the VCs. What did he do?
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
Consumers responded to name and concept well, solves real problem, o Took 4 months to build initial prototype. Called Tim Spicer (c-companies partner) and he told him matt, they only want one thing, more warrant coverage!!! . - Getting started: o Matt founded LowerMyBills.com in Dec 99, exited to Experian in Jan 05 for $400M.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2018
If an investor isn’t engaging then they’re not suddenly going to get a term sheet. The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. It doesn’t have to be a partner?—?every
K9 Ventures
JUNE 30, 2016
Every few weeks one of the founders of K9 Ventures’ portfolio companies forward over an email they’ve received from a “Partner” at a VC firm. And every time I go through the same ritual, explaining to the founder when to respond, when not to respond, and how to respond to such emails. Partner. <Firm
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 5, 2014
The Stage 1 partner escalates an opportunity to Stage 2 when we’ve been able to create a hypothesis as to why this might be a good investment. That partner also generates a set of questions for the other partner to push on in their discussions and data requests. Stage 2 : Here both of us are engaged.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
Focus on the partner you would be working with. You have this perception that they’re billing you for the lunch meeting they invited you to and the friendly banter emails flying back and forth. One issue he talked about was working with partners. I also like to work with partners. Good people and evil people.
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