YoungUpstarts
MAY 25, 2018
Pat grew the business so successfully that by his senior year, he had moved the operations from his dorm room to an off-campus office, had a staff of 17 full- and part-time employees and over 100 business accounts. Patrick Mackaronis: Everyone has different terminology for certain things when it comes to investors.
OnlyOnce
JULY 9, 2013
Chapter 15: Managing Remote Offices and Employees…Brick and Mortar Values in a Virtual World, Best Practices for Managing Remote Employees. Chapter 23: Collecting Data…External Data, Learning from Customers, Learning from (Un)Employees, Internal Data, Skip-Level Meetings, Subbing, Productive Eavesdropping.
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Austin Startup
OCTOBER 8, 2017
The end of the year requires wrestling with benefits renewals, otherwise known as premium increases, but it also leads to career introspection by your employees. In tech startups you may not have any employees watching the clock, but you can be sure they all pay attention to the calendar. Would you like a way to stop time?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
Banks are particularly helpful with raising money from “strategic&# investors, which often means corporate investors such as Intuit, SAP, AMD, Salesforce.com and the like. Has 85 employees in London and Nottingham. Has 150 employees and is opening a HQ in SF and a supply-chain office in LA. TechCrunch.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Many angel investors, and also strategic investors, are comfortable investing in LLCs, particularly under a convertible security structure that doesn’t immediately result in equity holdings. Equity compensation, particularly to employees, is much more complex under LLCs, and requires the oversight of true tax lawyers.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. On the flip side, simply taking strategic investor capital because it’s there or it’s easier or cheaper than other capital rarely works out well for startups.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
A corporate investor can provide diversity on the Board as someone who thinks differently from independent VCs. Corporate venture funds are often referred to as ‘strategic’ investors because of the unique benefits they bring to the table. Some corporate funds lead rounds and take board seats, others don’t.
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