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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. Here’s why.

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

On the phone … Me: So, you raised venture capital? Less than you’ll probably grant your most junior employees in stock options? Stock Option plans. We raised a seed round. About $1 million. Me: At what price? Him: It wasn’t priced. We raised a convertible note. Me: With a cap? Me: I know.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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Get 10 years of experience in 3 years running the most active venture fund in Texas

Austin Startup

You will coordinate and administer the most active venture capital fund in Texas and see an insane amount of dealflow. Job opening: Fund Administrator at Capital Factory In two or three years you’ll gain a decade worth of experience and dealflow. You’ll know the inside details about almost every deal that goes down.

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What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Steve Blank

Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). At its core Venture Capital is nothing more than a small portion of the Private Equity financial asset class.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. Your Process Doesn’t Work.