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 […]
The FeedBurner Venture Capital Network has expanded to 71 bloggers (with a reach over over 200,000 daily subscribers) by the addition of Todd Jacquez-Fissori. I’ve known Todd since he lived in Boulder and worked at Boulder Ventures – he’s now at Siemens Venture Capital and has started a new blog titled The Outright VC. Welcome […]
Once again we have a guest blog from Will Price at Hummer Winblad. We appreciate Will’s efforts in both writing a post on planning for M&A as well as introducing some MBA-speak into AsktheVC (hint: BATNA). Question: How do you plan for M&A? Trying to build our company, thus far we went the regular path […]
At AsktheVC, we’ve decided to periodically have guest bloggers take a shot at some of the questions we’ve received. Today’s guest post is by Will Price from Hummer Winblad. Will writes a popular blog which we enjoy. Hopefully you will also. Question: As the alternative asset classes continue to converge, there has been growing evidence […]
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 […]
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