Gust

JULY 18, 2012

The basic structure of corporate governance is well ingrained among the legal and investment communities, but it’s worth reviewing for those who don’t enjoy dealing with Board resolutions and proxy statements for a living. ” Typical governance structure (Sony Corporation). ” and “A.F.”

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

For purposes of this two-part article, I want to slice off one specific issue: Which actual pieces of paper are required at what stage, and who should prepare them? Serial entrepreneurs or those with close ties to the investment community would usually go straight to the big firm. We’ll get into these in more detail next week.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. If you invest, the fund will be evangelizing you to their portfolio and community for the next 5-10 years. Check out the online communities where investors congregate.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Note: I originally published this article in 2019 to share my lessons-learned from mapping a local ecosystem. The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. Start here! Here are some ideas from my experience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2020

I grew up in Montreal in a mostly francophone community with very few people of color in my school. Bullying often came in the form of derogatory terms, most of which I cannot mention in this article. You won’t find it documented in the employee handbook or on the company website, but it’s there.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article. While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Creative financing options for new businesses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

He is president and co-founder of imageOne , a document lifecycle management provider and a 2017 Forbes Small Giant. . This article was originally published in August 2017 on Thrive Global. There’s a Zen saying, “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy, then you should sit for an hour.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After poring over documents and articles of cutting-edge technological innovations in gaming and applications in other industries, the three co-founders identified a gap in the market and set up Refract. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Note that this is a debt instrument, whereas the two documents below are equity instruments. Take SparkToro, for example, which raised an unusual round of financing and open-sourced all their documents. You can see their Folder with All the Documents , including the: LLC Agreement. Inflection Community. Conferences.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

In 2019, The New York Times published an article headlined “More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost.” You can impress accelerators by creating a pitch deck and a company video less than two minutes long that shows your founder and the product, and engaging with the fintech community to spread the news.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 14, 2018

Be involved in your community. Document and review numbers. The original version of this article was written by Claire Algarme and appeared on EO Melbourne’s blog. . Choose the right bait and send it where it will be most effective. Cast the line early and often. . Feel the pulse of the market. Track your progress. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2022

As you come across key documents, transfer these into the corresponding folders. Use the due diligence process set out in this article to vet your startup from a VC’s perspective. Focus on creating a community first above all else?—?profits This is just best practice. profits will come later. ??Learn

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

NVCA Model Documents. My article on Top 10 Easy Career Hacks That Most People Don’t Do. I also recommend you join the most relevant online communities for you, since building a network is so fundamental to VC. I also suggest for the other most relevant major online communities. (We Confluence resource collection.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Peech Image Credits: Peech Peech is a text-to-speech reader that turns any text file, PDF, book or web article into audio. a week to upload as many documents, PDFs or links to articles as they want. Bookly Pro costs $4.99 for one month, $19.99 for six months and $39.99 for 12 months. The app is only available on iOS devices.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Assuming you thought through the tokenomics and underlying utility of the token, a properly executed airdrop to a well thought-out group of recipients can attract high quality users, reward the community for their efforts, and help projects ensure they have an active and aligned group from day one. And remember?—?Google

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Get involved with startup communities Most big cities have numerous startup communities. A pitch deck is a teaser, not a document containing trade secrets and an idea on its own is useless, it’s the execution of that idea that counts. Do your research and find out what is going on local to you or within travelling distance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. In a detailed TC+ article, he looks at why “sensible companies are de-risking their public path,” which sectors are best positioned, and perhaps most notably, which benchmarks startups can use to tell if “an IPO is in their future.”. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 29, 2022

Writing is not only a part of my wellness routine, and something that keeps me on track and accountable to maintaining my own health, it’s allowed me to connect in new ways with the technology community. HW: This is an area that’s quickly destigmatizing, at least within the tech community. Have you found the same?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community. At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. CrunchBase (free).

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

It provides a platform for observing industry trends and the competitive landscape, identifying sentiment and frequency of keyword mentions which reflects the community’s perception and interest in the various market competitors. offers collaboration and documentation support to streamline market research data handling.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 11, 2021

This article includes the latest guidance and the new application forms. If you were in business for all four quarters of 2019 you will be eligible to compare your annual receipts from 2019 to 2020 to demonstrate the 25% revenue reduction, and you will provide annual tax return forms as documentation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Van Luijt gave my colleague, Alex Wilhelm, a look under the hood of the technology last year by creating a semantic search engine that does question-answering on 2021 Techcrunch articles. and European talent and doubling down on its open source community for both Weaviate and vector search in general. Small notes on big news.

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StartupNation

MARCH 13, 2021

With this hyperlocal focus on some of the hardest hit cities, Visa aims to make a meaningful difference, quickly, for the communities and their business owners who need it most.”. You need to make sure you’re gathering, organizing and keeping documentation and required reports in one centralized place.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. I typically share my draft article with relevant domain experts, which makes me more educated about the topic I’m digging into. 3) Documenting best practices.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

They went out and help these businesses and document them as they tell their stories. You fall in love with them and their family and their community.” . Deluxe figured that instead of conducting ad campaigns on what they can help small businesses with, they’d do something different. Something with a more direct impact.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

In a companion article on TechCrunch , Eric explores these broader shifts, concluding, “you can start to see a world emerging that sounds a lot more like the fantasies of a New Urbanist than the world before the pandemic.” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. yourprotagonist. Let’s explore.

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Impact Hub

MAY 23, 2024

Their comprehensive assistance includes legal documentation, healthcare access, social support, and skill-building programmes. Collaborating with Impact Hub and other partners, Instituto +58 is committed to safeguarding human rights and fostering resilience among the immigrant community.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. I typically share my draft article with relevant domain experts, which makes me more educated about the topic I’m digging into. 3) Documenting best practices.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’ve got to go consult documentation. Today, most context windows are around 32K, but bigger context windows are coming—and with them, the ability to run larger documents with more context through LLMs. I think I saw an article yesterday that NVIDIA is going to build another 1.5M I see this stuff massively scaling up.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. In the VC community, investors look for lessons from disruptive startups they can use to identify other potential winners. Walter Thompson.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

In this article, I'll offer the crowdsourced definition I've come up with, share some of the great insights I received, and give you some strategies for thinking big. Some people use thinking big to tap into their creative side, helping them contribute something interesting to their company and their community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

X streamlines Community Notes The feature historically provided information to users about why they were seeing a fact check appended to a tweet. After three years of development, the company says this extra context will now be removed for those who are already experienced with Community Notes. Twitter, Inc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 9, 2016

You’ve likely used some proven process or model to create your 2016 goals, you’ve organized them in a formatted document or on an online platform, and now another leader is suggesting that you trash them. Well, that’s not entirely true. I’m merely suggesting you repurpose them in a supporting role.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 23, 2021

By: Kevin Learned, Partner of Loon Creek Capital The pros and cons of convertible notes have been thoroughly documented. This blog post is an attempt to document the adverse tax effects that have surprised some investors. A convertible note documents a loan to a company by the investors. January 31). Demand a 1099 at conversion.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

It provides a platform for observing industry trends and the competitive landscape, identifying sentiment and frequency of keyword mentions which reflects the community’s perception and interest in the various market competitors. offers collaboration and documentation support to streamline market research data handling.

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