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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

We’ve received numerous constructive comments, both privately and on social media, from attorneys, VCs, and CEOs who are well aware of the problem (including several who are experiencing it in real time). Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs.

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The Future of Startup Funding

www.paulgraham.com

Online video becomes possible, and YouTube plunges rightin, while existing media companies embrace it only half-willingly,driven more by fear than hope, and aiming more to protect theirturf than to do great things for users. 13 ]Im not saying option pools themselves will go away. Ditto for PayPal.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees

www.instigatorblog.com

You can’t have an option pool that takes up 50% of the company’s shares, and you have to leave room for future employees as well. Paul Graham offers up a formula for the equity challenge , which I think proves the fact that those first few employees deserve more.

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Twitter Link Roundup #202 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Model Equity Calculator for Founders with Option Pool Expansion – crowdspring.co/1fwUdsA. 40 Infographics & Cheat Sheets For Social Media Marketers – crowdspring.co/1eEjMue.