We closed an investment recently. It was a seed round. Our firm priced the round and we were joined by a number of small VCs and a few well known angels. We agreed to close on a standard set of "light preferred" documents without negotiation. There was no investor counsel on the transaction. We just signed the standard documents which were tweaked to reflect the round size, share price, and...
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Getting your startup in the newspaper is cool. You can call your parents and they will be proud. Who knows, someone might even read it and become a customer. Attending networking events is cool too. You get to meet people, exchange information and who knows, you might even meet a customer.
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Don’t know your pre-money from your post-money or carried interest from convertibles? Now there’s a 99-cent iPhone app for startup founders to bone up on investing terms and concepts they might encounter when they first try to raise money.. It is called Angel Trivia Daily, and it tests your angel investing knowledge with a new question every day. Created by two Seattle entrepreneurs, Joe Wallin a
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Ryan Carson created and released a spreadsheet model which is extremely helpful for startup founders and management to help get a good idea about the health of the company. I will not be explaining what he did, so if you want some background, I would recommend you read his article first – to understand what I am talking about here.
As partners in a firm that specializes in product launches, we regularly get calls from entrepreneurs and brand managers seeking help with their “revolutionary” products. After listening politely, we ask about the research supporting their claims. The classic response? “We haven’t done the research yet, but we know anecdotally that it works and is totally safe.” We’ve been fielding these calls...
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Last week I gave a talk at South by Southwest, and in it I shared my top ten rules for entrepreneurship. They are borne from my experiences starting companies and partnering with great entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley as an angel and a venture capitalist. I hope they prove to be useful to you. If you are an entrepreneur and have other rules you live by and want to share with others, please post...
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I remember when we had just organized the very first edition of The Next Web Conference. It was slightly successful, meaning that people loved the event and we didn’t lose too much money. We were already working on the next edition and thinking about how to improve on the formula.
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Meet Yu-Kai Chou, the founder of RewardMe, a cool iPhone app for restaurant rewards. On Friday, Yu-Kai got to sit down with prominent investor Jeff Clavier for a one-hour lunch. How did Yu-Kai separate himself from the countless aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley? By being persistent. First, he joined LetsLunch and started meeting other entrepreneurs over lunch, with no set agenda,...
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AngelList founder Naval Ravikant talks about recent changes to the early-stage fund-raising process and how entrepreneurs can use these trends to their advantage.
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Right now, the demand for high quality engineers who are willing and able to work for a startup is very strong… Not a day goes by that I don’t see tweets, emails, and random conversations that start with “Anybody know a good X engineer?” where X is the latest must-have technology. However, sometimes it is neither simple or prudent to approach strangers and shove your resume in their face.
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