Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot. Unemployment likely to rise.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
While some entrepreneurs may think that financial models are just a formality that needs completing in order to placate straight-laced venture capital types, the reality is that models can be essential tools for creating and analyzing the roadmap an entrepreneurial venture should follow. The answer is, almost certainly not.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2015
” And yet we entrepreneurs who will sign up for the journey accept that failure is a possibility and the true entrepreneurs know that they must stick with the ship even if it’s sinking. First time entrepreneurs can fall prey to hubris. But markets don’t generally love failure. Yet failure smells.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
When the company hits potholes, Flexible VC investors usually don’t have the nuclear options of firing management and/or doing a recapitalization. See Why Are Revenue-Based Investors Investing in Women & Diverse Entrepreneurs? Their only option is to work with management to try to fix the problems. Emily Campbell, Esq.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 14, 2015
So they recapitalize the company. In some cases this turned into nothing, but in a few cases it had magnificent outcomes for me and my gang, along with the entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur and the VC may not care at all, and that’s fine with us, but we’ll remember the behavior for a long time.
blog.simeonov.com
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Even if you are an experienced entrepreneur, you’ve probably only seen a few founder agreements in your life. The only way to remove their equity holding in the cap table is by buying them out or through a recapitalization of the company. Most partners, be they lawyers or VCs, tend to tweak the standard with their own language.
venturehacks.com
MARCH 21, 2008
Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. A naive entrepreneur hires the wrong business advisor and a major new investor asks the entrepreneur to clean up the dead wood.
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