Stu Phillips has the great VC post of the day up titled The Valuation Trap. In it, he tells you how to answer the question from a VC of "what valuation are you looking for?" Of course, if I ask you the question, please ignore Stu’s advice and just give me a number.
Q: I’m the founder of a small internet start-up. Among my duties are editing and posting content daily, creating media partnerships, and bolstering our growth with creation of widgets, facebook apps, etc, but I’m also doing all of the fund-raising which feels like it should be my full-time job…if I could. I’m finding it hard […]
Today’s guest blogger is Matt McCall of DFJ Portage. Matt was a co-investor with us in FeedBurner and sat on the board with me. He writes a great blog called VC Confidential. When the following question appeared, we did the super efficient thing and forwarded it to Matt to answer. Following is his response which […]
Dick Costolo (aka Mr. Ask the Wizard) – the founder/CEO of FeedBurner (now a Googler) has another outstanding post up titled Early Stage Board of Directors. In his delicious way, Dick talks through how he thinks about the potential composition of a Series A board and gives entrepreneurs some ammunition for their potential investors when […]
We are always diligently on the lookout for new VC-related blogs for you to add to your reading list. Today we discovered Furqan Nazeeri, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Softbank Capital Partners. I came across Furqan while reading Found+Read’s article titled A few more things no one tells you about VC… Furqan had a post recently titled […]
Q: What should my compensation be? I’m going to be the first full-time employee of a new startup. As it is so early stage, it is hard to say what the title is, but the role is certainly similar to a CMO or VP BizDev type person. The company just raised around $500k in an […]
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