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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. That way when my partners in are in …. there is a reason for us to re-engage because they never met that partner before. What do I do now?

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5 Tips for Raising a Venture Round

ReadWriteStart

If you're earlier in the process, a small angel round or partnering with an accelerator may be the best approach. Next if you are going to raise a round, find one or two partners to do it with. It turns out Premature Scaling is the leading cause of hemorrhaging cash in a startup, and death. Tip 2: Have a "real" lead.

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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. He had an ad-supported business doing about 1.5 million uniques. 500k had come through the last acquisition. He’s talented.

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Entrepreneurs: Your instincts are always better than bad advice

The Next Web

Neil Rimer is a Partner and co-founder of Index Ventures. More often than not, these companies have no formal option pool, although many have either formal or informal promises to grant options to key employees.

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The BSList - Busted Cap Table (No. 104)

This is going to be BIG.

It’s this part: “I’m getting inbound from investors…” Nearly all of the inbound VC interest happening out there is from non-partner investors (i.e. A check-writing partner reaches out to you. Here’s the option pool that I think fairly incentivizes you. What does real excitement look like?

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Series D Preferred.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

Company Y receives an offer from an angel or ‘unsophisticated’ smaller VC fund that is unwilling to lead and price the equity but wants to ‘invest now’.