Today’s great post is from Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners titled Litigation as a negotiating strategy. It’s an email interview between Jeremy and Andrew Bridges of Winston Strawn about litigation. While Andrew demonstrates his pithiness with his quip “litigation sucks” he digs down deep in answering a few of Jeremy’s pointed questions about litigation […]
Q: Is it wise as a small company (1 person + advisors) to give the perception of a larger company? I had done this for a while when I presented at conferences and talked to VC’s and have since stopped. I have to bite my tongue when people tell me “we’re amazed that you’re able […]
Here’s a question from the dustbin as I try to clear out my backlog of old, neglected questions. Q: What is the one common element you’ve seen in successful VC’s? A: (Brad) This is an easy one. Before the snarky ones in the crowd answer “nothing”, I’d suggest that its “optimism.” I have yet to meet […]
Venture Hacks has two great posts up about what kind of stuff you should send to investors if you are looking for financing. What should I send investors? Part 1: Elevator Pitch. What should I send investors? Part 2: Deck. Plus, as a special bonus, you get to see Ali G pitching investors. This nicely […]
Rick Segal has today’s great VC post up titled More Favorite VC Phrases. It includes his analysis of such chestnuts as “let’s go to the next step”, “come back when you’ve got some traction”, “we’re excited”, “I’m interested”, and “we can close quickly.” At least we don’t have “Honestly, to tell you the truth …” […]
David Cohen – the ringleader of TechStars – has a good post up titled Thoughts from the west out east, and vice versa. Last week David was a guest speaker at the Northeast Regional Investor Conference held in Portsmouth, NH. In addition to running TechStars, David is an active angel investor in Colorado and had a […]
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