Question: We are considering selling our VC-backed company. It may not be the optimum time so valuation is a question. My board has asked me to proposed a management carve out plan as a retention tool. What do I need to consider in formulating this proposal? While management carve out plans were rarely used before the […]
Today, our partner Chris Wand is our guest blogger of the day. Question: I am a VC, what do I do now? When I left university I got lucky & landed a job working as an analyst for a VC firm. Fast forward a few years & now I’m left wondering what to do. There […]
Question: Does a Board of Advisors provide much value to a startup company? Would having a Board of Advisors have any impact, negative or positive, on angel or venture capital funding? It’s a lame answer, but “it depends.” We’ve seen the effectiveness of these boards skew all over the map. We’ve seen some that are […]
Question: Under what conditions would it make sense for a pre-seed stage CEO to give a board seat to his co-founder CTO/VP Engineering? What might be the positives/negatives? Especially if the CTO/VPE has more experience with dealing with VCs than the CEO? If you think your co-founder would make a good fellow director, then put […]
A few of you asked what I would say if I were to rant about the current state of affairs of patent law in the United States. The patent litigation systems is screwed up beyond belief. Thank your local congressman (probably a former plaintiff attorney) and the state of Texas. Here are some sobering statistics. – Most […]
The best thing about having a blog is writing about a topic and then watching the email comments and questions flow in. I especially love the comments that disagree with what I write, as I usually learn more than I expound. My post yesterday regarding whether or not entrepreneurs should review patents in broadening their […]
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