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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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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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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

In 3 days, my articles of incorporation as a Delaware C-Corp came by email. Better safe than sorry, so I paid it, including the cost of emails and phone conversations, even if I had a simple question that took a minute or two over the phone to answer. I chose Delaware, signed up with Clerky and paid for my incorporation.

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How to pick a co-founder

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Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. 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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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – The Board Meeting

VC Adventure

There are, of course, some items that the board has specific decision making authority over (buying another company, increasing the option pool, signing leases of a certain size, etc.). It’s best if you do this from the outset. Every meeting should have an executive session. 15 minutes is typically sufficient.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Email address: Home. If youre offering the consultant stock options, youll also want to take into consideration what the exercise price is going to be and how long the options will be outstanding. Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says.