Deal Structure Entrepreneur Partner 
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Place your bets on an entrepreneur who has the guts to pivot, restructure, bounce back, and the stamina to re-orientate his business when profitability starts to seem bleak. Emmanuel de Watteville, General Partner and Co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures, has been part of the startup ecosystem since 2003.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
In short, more and more entrepreneurs are signaling their price expectations earlier in their seed fundraise process. In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: 1. And as my partner Rob Go likes to say, “Time kills all deals.”).
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David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. Partnering with a source of capital, connections, and expertise for a large equity chunk is often worth it in those scenarios (e.g., mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2012
In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. I made a pile of intros and didn’t think much more of it.
Genuine VC
JULY 30, 2012
In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: Lower than “market.” This approach is almost never a good idea. By definition, all entrepreneurs should think that their endeavor is truly exceptional. Above market.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 10, 2008
As all good sales VPs will tell you, the compensation plans of the sales team will drive behavior, so it is critically important that you structure the sales and account management plans to align with the key metrics of your business: CMRR, Churn, and Cash flow. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.
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