Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. Tags: Startup Advice. I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . Note that this is a debt instrument, whereas the two documents below are equity instruments. One-Page Term Sheet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

You will often find these governing conditions in the “protective provisions” section of your company’s legal documents. At other times boards try to micro-manage details that should be left to management teams and therefore offer “helicopter advice” without having to actually own the results or knowing the daily idiosyncrasies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. They over think the decision framework. Check your legal framework. Good enough isn’t.

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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. I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. ” And so that framework helps think that through before you start talking to folks, which I think is very smart.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. “Here’s how you upload a document. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method. Act I – The Discussion: I think the negative reaction to Powerpoint from some VCs is that it usually becomes a crutch. DO NOT make it a features & functions presentation.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

It helps you create the framework, for building, scaling, and selling your company. Are they efficient, productive, and well documented? Owners that follow this advice put themselves in the best position possible to build a sustainable, scalable, and sellable business. The ST GPS Exit Model. Why This Book Is Must-read.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. ” Such simple yet poignant advice.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. We were intentional about this from day one and documented it in our engineering handbook. Train your team to use experimentation frameworks.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 26, 2019

Tips: Shoot on your smartphone to begin with – you can grab a cheap tripod and away you go, document what you are already doing rather than create specific pieces in the moment and talk about things you are passionate about and enjoy to ensure success. I will talk about this more in a future post. 2) Chatbots. 5) Influencer marketing.

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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. . Datasite acquired Brochure to help centralize all the document tracking involved in diligence. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs.

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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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so, I joined this program, and we and a bunch of my colleagues in the program took his work and thought, “Can we put this work, this expert system inference, in a formal Bayesian probabilistic framework?” That approach was, write a big document about how your electronic trading algo works.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

He also includes a tactical framework for developing freemium products that includes use cases for limited and unlimited usage. When to build a freemium plan and how to get it right Three more from the TC+ team: Teaming with good advice : Haje goes deep on the team slide, and why it is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We’re still working on frameworks for this, both regulatory and following it ourselves, but one broad way that we’ve been thinking about it from the beginning and are probably going to work more on formalizing it over the coming months and years, is this idea of safe scaling or checkpointing.

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