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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2015
by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. ” The Cost of Financing. Convertible Securities.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners.
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Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016. And, funding moves entirely to production capital, with little to no focus on next-wave technologies. Looking ahead to 2017.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 1, 2010
and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment.
cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. We fine tuned the idea throughout, even got letters of intent and partner contracts before we had a powerpoint. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.]
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. It’s also important to say that while many successful technology companies have been venture-backed--Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook come to mind-- it’s not solely a funding method for technology companies.
Seeing Both Sides
MARCH 2, 2011
I had the pleasure of teaching a new case at HBS yesterday on foursquare that I co-authored with Professors Tom Eisenmann and Mikolaj Piskorski as part of Tom's new course "Launching Technology Ventures". million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last.
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