Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. This time I’ll break down week four of this season. BACK 9 DIPS.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2013

The researchers informed half of the participants that natural chickens were healthy but less tasty, and genetically engineered chickens were tasty, but less healthy. Overwhelmingly, both halves of participants preferred the nice plump chicken, but their reasoning was different. Used with permissions by Persuasive Tech Lab.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. Many term sheets ensued.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

Peer reviews matter. A 2010 study by The Nielsen Company confirmed what we already knew – people read reviews and decide by them. Start gathering reviews on your site. If you sell commodity products, you might want to look into pulling reviews from an external site to have more of them.

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