Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

From optimizing employee benefits for tax advantages to setting aside funds for year-end tax liabilities, we’ve compiled the top thirteen strategies shared by seasoned professionals. This opened our eyes to the importance of tax literacy in startup finance management.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 26, 2021

He covers what it is, walks through some of its benefits and risks, and gives advice on how to approach the process of taking on venture debt. Brex is a YC portfolio company that provides an all-in-one finance solution to their customers. Strategy: How to Approach Venture Debt. Good news: New Entrant: Brex.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 27, 2021

Under these laws, you’ll need to provide your investors with detailed documentation regarding why you want their investment and the potential risks associated with them investing with you. It is not intended to provide any legal advice. Receiving funding is an exciting time for your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Both firms were able to establish themselves as clear market leaders in early-stage finance even though they were effectively startups 10 years ago in their own right because they did things a different way. We can help portfolio companies with announcements, PR strategies, crisis management and so forth. Partner Leverage.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Ten Networking Strategies to a Seat on the Board. Here’s How . Deal-Catcher.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. And we know that the chief people officer role, CHRO—unlike maybe finance or sales—entrepreneurs have a harder time understanding what that role is, right? This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

While the management of a startup company deals with the day-to-day decision-making within the company (strategy, budgets, goals, tasks, compensation) ultimately the Board of Directors has the legal governing responsibilities for these things. Don’t confuse “advice from a board member” with a “board matter.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. Everything needs to be part of a holistic company strategy. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. So how much PS is too much?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They picked apart holes in our strategy and they were right. They are engaged in a beautiful dialog about market adoption and why they have problems managing their documents since they store everything in Outlook. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The poorest households describe a stark choice — between ‘heating or eating’ Into this grim maelstrom a new London-based startup, called Nous , is hoping to throw households a life-raft by offering a free personalized report that explains how price rises will affect their costs and gives advice on how to adapt to inflation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The path I went down after a few years was to hire more process driven people and devolved more daily operational ownership to people running individual functions such as product management, sales management, finance, etc. Tags: Startup Advice. Unwillingness to devolve power is the bane of many management teams at startup companies.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sharing the load and delegating work not only provides business owners or managers with more time to tackle bigger picture strategies or decisions, but also empowers employees and team members by giving them a chance to upskill or try their hand at something new.”. End of Financial Year preparations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In-house legal teams play a critical role in companies, but a lot of them don’t have the same kind of technology as their counterparts in sales or finance. LawVu is to legal what Salesforce is to sales teams,” co-founder and chief strategy officer Tim Boyne told TechCrunch in an email. for its global go-to-market strategy and open U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

This article is the final installment in our series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. Read part 1 on Choosing the Right Funding Structure here. Read part 2 on Trade-offs Across Terms here.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. But before we get to the lesson, I just plain like this intro into his negotiation strategy: Like a machismo first-time CEO I thought I should handle the negotiation myself. On this issue I can’t give.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform. 3) Documenting best practices. I agree with Fred Wilson on the value of owning your own platform.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 9, 2022

Often you’re writing code, selling products, recruiting, and helping with HR and finance functions. What's your advice to other founders on how to hire executives? In the early days, you’re in the trenches with your co-founders and early employees splitting up tasks and touching nearly every part of the business.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The whole program has been designed to provide financing as quickly as possible. On a case-by-case basis, investors are willing to remove blocking language from company documents, lower their ownership percentage so they’re not in a blocking position, and aggregate their ownership across funds to a single fund manager.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Datasite acquired Brochure to help centralize all the document tracking involved in diligence. Betterfront.io

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

I do think people overthink a lot of their strategy in general, and their execution in general… which means that someone else is running faster than them and out executing them. Any advice for founders just getting started? " Any advice for founders just getting started? Alex: Oh, we trip all the time! Per container!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) (Any Nothing wrong with this asset liability management strategy so far. Obviously, that strategy didn’t work.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. 3) Raise capital.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. Craig Cannon [00:37:56] – Weird strategy. It really only takes one. Most people think, “Oh, man. Once I’ve failed at Facebook I’ll never reapply.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 30, 2020

One common challenge arises when founders are presenting their opportunity to multiple investors or are considering alternative financing strategies. Most contracts will have a warranty clause in the settlement documentation, so make sure to raise any issues before settlement.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. You’re not going to wake up and write a document and say, “This is it. Mine, I edit constantly. That’s the other thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Working with writers to create documentation. Defensibility in Software.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, many years later, Square would use other innovative “cash giveaway” strategies to steal market share from Paypal (in addition to copying the give $5, get $5 model ). The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.” (see Party A will also routinely ask members of Party C for IPO advice.

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