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Beware of Premature Merge Elation

Both Sides of the Table

My recommendation to our lead partner looking at the deal, “Pass. If they raise a bunch of capital little ole you isn’t going to be around to have your option pool topped up. But they’re big and they have very experienced operators like Brett Brewer running things. million uniques.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others. Precise valuations are impossible to determine because of adjustments to employee option pools, possible buybacks of common stock, etc. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. as of 12/31/09).

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Office and Operations. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says.

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

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

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The Future of Startup Funding

www.paulgraham.com

VCs are much morelikely to make angel-sized investments than they were a year ago.And meanwhile the past year has seen a dramatic increase in a newtype of investor: the super-angel, who operates like an angel, butusing other peoples money, like a VC. 13 ]Im not saying option pools themselves will go away.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. And we think its better if startups operate out of their ownpremises, however crappy, than the offices of their investors. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.