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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. The problem was that he was still working out the lock-up period in his big company. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. Both employees and investors typically have a 6 month lock up period (exceptions apply of course) so this can have devastating effects on liquidity and retruns. This is even before serial entrepreneur Liad Agmon joins as partner.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process. We drew $1.5 Same principle here.