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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Debt also has a due date and interest rate to negotiate. “From a diligence perspective, trolling appears as a blemish on the company,” said Fisher. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship. Debt or convertible securities (e.g.,

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. Team Pip.io

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. Personalization & Discovery.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Do Less. More.

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One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. “Yeah, we think about going every year.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10). at 7:35 PM.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.