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The Founder and Investor Trust Problem: It's not what you think.

This is going to be BIG.

Whenever I submit a term sheet, I always caveat it by saying the following: “This is the one time we’re completely misaligned. I’m incentivized to buy up as much of the company at as low a price as possible and you’re incentivized to sell as little of the company as possible by raising the price.”. Founders seem to get that.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams. Raising Venture Capital. Angel Topics. Entrepreneur DNA.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. The assistant tried to end the meeting twice but was shoooshed away. What do I do now?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. Is that when it became big?

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Product or service readiness.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Product or service readiness.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. The question then becomes whether these lead investors remain impactful after the deal closes or shifts into a mode of monitoring progress and hunting for the next deal. .