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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Should You Take Money from Investors Who Don't Share Your Values?

This is going to be BIG.

How competitive is your company going to be in the race to recruit the best women on the market (women—the segment of the talent market who hold the majority of new college degrees) when your lead investor is a top donor to an anti-choice org?

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

At its core, this issue points to the lack of understanding about the importance of post-money valuation by both entrepreneurs and investors.

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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate

Genuine VC

There are essentially two distinct basic strategies for startup entrepreneurs to raise a seed round of capital: Subscription approach – An entrepreneur sets a structure (usually a convertible note) and recruits individual angel investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

Feld Thoughts

.” So, while Apple, Costco, and FedEx benefited, the PR would be more credible if the SBIC was trumpeting iconic companies created after 1990 or even 2000, especially where the lead investors (rather than follow on investors) had SBIC capital. Peter Adams, head of Rockies Venture Club, is quoted a few times.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Some corporate funds now lead rounds. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. Teten: What makes for a good vs. bad corporate venture investor? So is strong support from the parent company’s leadership.