Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Gather your thought leaders together for a discussion of what you can do in the coming 12 months to ratchet up sales and blow the roof off your revenue stream. Manage client expectations. Clients can be a huge source of stress during the holidays, but only if their expectations haven’t been managed.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

The version of “anti-dilution protection” that most benefits outside investors is commonly called a “full ratchet.” As a middle ground on the “anti-dilution clause” you should be pushing for what’s called a “partial ratchet.” As the small business owner, the goal is just to understand how to negotiate the clause to serve you best.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” Khalid Smith , co-founder of LessonCast, will be speaking at the conference about concrete things small startups can do to reach product-market fit with B2C customers.

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ithacaVC

MAY 4, 2011

Many terms of the Series C round are going to have more of an impact on the Series A and Series B holders than on the management team. So, prior to closing, the VCs themselves are negotiating just as much as management. Here is an example. It is horse trading, and will inject a bit of agitation into any deal.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Generally speaking, emerging managers who invest early stage, are potential hedge for this as they’re less correlated with the public market, according to Cambridge Associates. Disclaimer is that this is of course an average of the top 25% and much of the asset class returns are concentrated in the anomalies, not the average.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

ithacaVC

MAY 10, 2011

Capital is called when needed for investment, fund expenses or management fee. Third, VC1 pays GP1 a management fee (via a separate fund management entity – again, to make this post simple I am not going to elaborate on the fund management entity here). salary paid from management fees.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

OnlyOnce

JULY 25, 2006

Fred has a good posting on some of the downsides of having managed through the bubble bursting. I wrote about this (a little bit) last year in Ratcheting Up is Hard to Do ([link] but Fred's posti. A VC: Scars From The Last Bubble.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2016

In effect, it’s like a ratchet that will constantly wind up more tightly and thereby twist SEO and PR closer together until one day they aren’t just friends but they are one and the same. Rick Riddle is a successful blogger whose articles aim to help readers with content management, self-development, and personal finance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Chris Bailey: I think the more focused we are and the better we manage our attention, the more productive we become. John Jantsch: And so while you’re talking about it as the killer thing, it also has its limitations … Or has to be managed in order to create productivity. Focus and productivity. Are those the same thing?

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

In this guest post, Alan Gleeson, General Manager of Palo Alto Software, Ltd., Business planning entails goal setting and milestones, managing cash flow and prioritizing work streams. Internet entrepreneurs in the UK need to push managing metrics right to the front of their to-do lists. gives a U.K. But they don’t.

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Metrics Nigeria Ratchet Churn Rate 68

Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 23, 2012

And Mr. Parthasarathi’s story is not an isolated one: In recent years, New York’s colleges and universities have ratcheted up their commitment to supporting budding entrepreneurs. Jon Mason, managing director at startup Trace Visual Effects, said the M.B.A.s

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Unfortunately, I managed to pick a hotel which would of required only transferring trains once. If the quality of the conference remained high, you could easily ratchet up the prices and just make it a must-attend event, even if you have to pay more than for an open event. I truly did find it well chosen in regards to layout.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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Portfolio Software Review Framework Networking 89

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 131

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I also think seed and early stage managers are more aligned with their LPs. A $10mm, $25mm, or even $50mm fund isn’t generating enough management fees for anyone to get rich off of just taking your money—so they’re out looking for big outcomes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

Investors can delay until you’re desperate and then ratchet the terms. You’ve managed to hire a couple good people. It’s not just cofounders. Partners can break their contracts. Suppliers can fail to deliver. Employees can blackmail or extort you. Second, look at where you are now. You’ve launched a version 1.

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Cofounder Technical Review Vesting Ratchet 20

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We ratcheted that up a lot in the last year, which is why we added the following statement in as one of our 14 Core Values : Think Global, Act Local. Think Global, Act Local. At Return Path , we have always had a commitment to community service and helping make the world around us a better place.

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Global Ratchet Matching Community 66

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.” Now you make your own decisions.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Other links: The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future is Now (HBR), Space Station Builds 3D-Printed Ratchet Wrench (NASA), Shapeways.com (3D printing marketplace). Little known fact, I was actually promoted today to Mr. Manager, so I feel pretty good about that. I’m Mr. Manager! Peter: Of this broadcast?

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Business Plan Marketing Oregon Small Business 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. White House advisers warned that additional trade measures related to steel, aluminum and other products from China could be coming, a signal that Mr. Trump is ratcheting up the protectionist policies he has long espoused as part of his “America First” approach.

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