Don’t compete with Fred Wilson (USV) on Mondays for the best VC Post of the Week. He wins again with Financing Options: Bridge Loans as part of his MBA Mondays series. Ok – I know it’s not Monday anymore. So you get the best post of Tuesday also, which is from Nic Brisbourne (DFJ Esprit) titled Software patents […]
Mark Suster (GRP) has today’s VC post of the day titled What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management. As with many of Mark’s posts, it’s an excellent piece of long form writing that thoroughly dissects the issue of crisis management and makes a number of very significant recommendations which are summarized below. If […]
Rob Go (NextView Ventures) has the VC post of the day titled Should You Meet With VC’s Early for Feedback? He adds additional perspective to the posts I highlighted last week from Allen Morgan and Mark Suster about meeting with VCs before you are ready to formally pitch them. The VC blogging was pretty thin pickings this […]
The VC post of the day is from Zack Shulman (Cayuga Venture Fund) titled Should Founders Personally Guaranty Bank Loans? If, as an entrepreneur, you’ve raised any institution money, the answer should be – as Zack explains – a decisive NFW. In addition, your institutional investors are likely prohibited from doing this by their fund agreements. […]
There are a few legal issues that we’ve seen consistently become hurdles for entrepreneurs and their lawyers. While in some cases they will simply be a hassle to clean up in a financing or an exit, they often have meaningful financial implications for the company and, in the worst case, can seriously damage the value […]
Many of the VC Bloggers are talking about macro economic chaos and the impact on startups. We’ll highlight a few of them today. First up is Nic Brisbourne (DFJ Esprit) weighing in from the UK where, in addition to a falling stock market, there is fire in the streets. His post, Keep going through the […]
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