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VC Cafe
JULY 21, 2022
And a record-breaking $7 billion was invested through venture capitalists and strategic investors in private gaming companies during the first half with 11 large rounds that exceeded $100 million. Private financing market continued to see strong deal activity with $3.6B Where the Internet is headed (Joost van Dreunen).
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
There are actually several type and I’m going to make the case that if you can avoid board observers you generally should and when you do have them you should be thoughtful about how you manage them. On a board with 5 members plus a CFO plus a legal representative plus 1–2 management?—?every Strategic Investors ?—?This
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OnlyOnce
JULY 9, 2013
Chapter 8: The CEO as Functional Supervisor…Rules for General Managers. Chapter 13: Promoting …Recruiting from Within, Applying the “Peter Principle” to Management, Scaling Horizontally, Promoting Responsibilities Rather than Swapping Titles . What About Sales & Marketing?, Scaling Your Team Over Time.
Berkonomics
AUGUST 3, 2023
Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
I wonder, for example, if our portfolio company, Codecademy , would have avoided its latest financing round and instead created “CodeCoin” in order to incent contributors to software development lesson plans and a marketplace for coding content? Who sets the policy for token sales—management or the board of directors?
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
I wonder, for example, if our portfolio company, Codecademy , would have avoided its latest financing round and instead created “CodeCoin” in order to incent contributors to software development lesson plans and a marketplace for coding content? Who sets the policy for token sales—management or the board of directors?
Rob Go
DECEMBER 14, 2016
This is also a risk in financing rounds with investors that are unknown (foreign investors, groups that are starting to do early stage investing for the first time, unusual strategic investors, etc). Second, don’t be too quick to get to the LOI. Fred Wilson wrote a bit about this a few years ago: [link].
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