Q: As a rookie VC trial by fire is a great way to learn. Aside from crunching through some early deals, where are the best executive programs and crash courses for newbies to the VC world? A: While self serving, we recommend you start with our book – Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer […]
Q: We are a Delaware C Corp registered as a Foreign Entity in Colorado our home state and we need to figure out the answers to the following questions with regards to stock certificates. 1. Who gets stock certificates issued and when? My assumptions are that cash investments DO get certificates, […]
Troy Henikoff and I had lunch a month or so ago in Chicago and the conversation turned to convertible debt. I’d recently made an offer to invest in a company Troy was an investor in and the entrepreneur and I got tangled up in the definition of pre and post money in the context of […]
My long time friend and favorite Seattle VC Greg Gottesman has started blogging. Greg’s a great writer and super thoughtful investor so I expect his blog will be one to read and comment on. It’s certainly going to be in my daily blogroll. Greg and I are currently on the boards of Cheezburger and Startup Weekend together. […]
Q: What costs are considered reimbursable to the founder of a start-up company? More specifically, if the founder has been boot-strapping his company since inception, and he agrees to a series a term sheet with a VC firm, are the operational costs incurred by the founder between this time and the closing of the round […]
Dave McClure has a great post up today titled VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself. It’s a long ramble, as is Dave’s style, on a bunch of issues around the evolution of how VC works and scales. I’m an investor in Dave’s fund and have believed in him from the beginning so it’s cool to see him continue […]
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