David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . As a next step, we recommend that you register at the major expert network websites, as well as LinkedIn and job boards, if you haven’t already.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I understand that Adam Grant is a fairly popular professor at Wharton and has a book that some people loved called “Originals” (for me it interesting but not mind blowing, and I have some first-hand knowledge of some of its inaccuracies). Would you recommend that I create an open Trello board and anybody can add tasks for me there?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat. You betcha.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. Hugging Face raises $40 million for its natural language processing library.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

It’s not just about people like me who can (and do) turn up in nearly any city in the US and immediately book a ride. I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. They want us to store our documents.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2024

That’s more than enough to write a few chapters of a book. Visualize Your Goals: As part of an annual tradition, we started off January 1 in my family by making family vision boards. A vision board is a great way to document your goals for the year and keep those objectives front of mind.

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Dream It

MAY 4, 2021

Board meetings can be very powerful events where founders get valuable feedback, ideas, and strategic direction. Oftentimes, founders dread board meetings and look at them as low ROI events. Their primary role is to confirm the board meeting agenda. Tip #3: Focus on key issues How do you know what a “key issue” is?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2023

Some of you have gotten along forever without a board of directors, or used your spouse as the “other” board member from the start. But there are some very good reasons to build a great board composed of some outside members. And good board members can add real value to you and the company. Generative.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

However, it is (or at least can be) a complicated document that you as an entrepreneur may not have seen before, but that the investor deals with daily…so the person across the table from you has huge advantage. Once you’ve settled on the investor, only then should you worry about the terms of the investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events. Our lives are intertwined.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Executive team.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

Dropbox should have a marketplace of folders that I can download or even buy that have specific actions built in that occur when I drag a document into them. Transportation scheduling and booking, distribution of presentations, speaker and event ratings, etc. Eventbrite – This one is a little different.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

Have you ever double-booked yourself or perhaps forgotten about a meeting entirely? You can create multiple boards, lists and cards where you can set tasks and add notes. You can also share your boards and tag others on your notes when you need to, making collaboration much easier.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

They also can customize the benefits and adjust the premium to suit them, get their policy documents and access claims. She illustrates an offering with a bus-booking platform where passengers’ insurance points are calculated on a per-trip basis. It counts when they board the bus and stops when they alight.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2019

A Clever Hack to Reading More Books : There's so much knowledge in books, and as a society we're spending less and less time with books. One way of reading more books is to reduce the cost of them. This chart documented the rise from about a 3.3x This is my mental model. It's a format that is in slow decline.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What challenges and success the initiative booked in the first six months, and how COVID-19 impacted the project. We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work. Not all service providers will be on board with the initiatives.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

There are also penalties that businesses can face if other legal documents aren’t filled out properly when a hire comes on board. He's the author of several books, including his latest, "Celebrity CEO - How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive by Building Community and a Strong Personal Brand".

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The firm’s partner Ricardo Schäefer will join Indicina’s board. Another interesting angle to Indicina’s solution is that lenders who process loan applications manually can use the platform to double or triple their volume without blowing up their loan books. Greycroft also participated in this round, and so did RV Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2012

In it I list some books and also link to some of my previous posts. They are in a board meeting with clients. Now we move to definitive documents (long-form legal docs) and the whole freakin process starts again. I’ve started a series on negotiations in startups. We take a half a day to agree the points and send them over.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Several times in my investing life, as the final board member making the arrangements to dispose of remaining assets, I have literally been the one to turn out the lights, carry out the documents, books and records to my car, and become the only remaining contact between the failed business and the investors, bankruptcy court, or creditors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Full partner meetings are almost always on Mondays and if it isn’t already booked yet for Monday, November 16th (e.g. VC’s are never really “off.&# Just like entrepreneurs they take calls from vacations, do board calls, handle company emergencies and urgent financings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Islamic fintech can also help resolve issues that unbanked people face, like lack of money, lack of proper documentation and being located far away from conventional Islamic banks. The MUI has published at least two fatwas on fintech. The first, issued in 2017, is about Islamic perspectives on practices related to e-money.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 25, 2019

Babel Analytics developed an artificial intelligence-powered user interface to read and analyze patient health records and extract medical information that saves physicians time, minimizes documentation errors and improves patient care. . New Horizons Technology, LLC. University of Central Oklahoma. Advisor: Maurice Haff. Project Eden.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

Angel investors, as frequent board members, board observers and informal advisors, may be able to encourage their portfolio companies to take steps to encourage a successful exit. Company Records Books and records are another area of concern for emerging companies seeking exit, including: Company Minutes and State Filings.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While at the company — and especially once she departed — Claire became one of the people I always hoped to add to a cap table or startup board. So instead she wrote a book , coming out March 7th, and available for pre-order now. And those founding documents shouldn’t change very often. Congrats CHJ!

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 18, 2018

There are a few passages from the book that struck me. Claire Hughes Johnson: “I wrote a document back when I was at Google called, ‘Working with Claire.’…It ” In the book, Elad reprints Claire’s document. Seeing a document like this inspires me to create such a document.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2019

While no living document like this is ever perfect, this is currently the best board-level summary of the overall health of a business I have found. The template is broken into six sections: People, Bookings & Revenue, Cash, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success. I’m sharing it so that others may benefit and improve it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

It's where no-coders can easily test out the platform's image generation capabilities—without having to first go through JavaScript documentation and carry out the same tasks inside a terminal. You could use it to create avatars for social media, generate illustrations for books or comics, or even develop characters for video games.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

But this particular episode was about how he took all of his blog about passing the architecture licensing exam and he put his … He had documented his process, how he studied and passed it. One night, I was laying in bed super depressed, Jocelyn was reading a book, kids were asleep. I was really sad. And I was really frustrated.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Maybe you have not heard the term, “deal book.” All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Up-to-date insurance policies, leases, financial documents and schedules such as fixed assets are copied here.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

First, what’s a “deal book?”. Maybe you have not heard the term, “deal book.” All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Current documents relating to any lawsuits by or against the company are maintained there as well. .

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Most banks and card providers ask for excessive documentation, take 3–5 days to onboard customers, and require a personal guarantee from business founders and owner-operators. This drives immense value not just through lower banking fees but cost savings and more efficient operations across the board.

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Don Dodge

DECEMBER 6, 2016

board-certified ophthalmologists serving as the reference standard. Explore in Google Docs taps into Google’s search engine and machine intelligence to add suggestions based on content within documents. This dataset was used to train a deep neural network to detect referable diabetic retinopathy.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Like many other AI use cases, AIOps can turn these data-driven insights into scripts, run books, and actions to take basic IT tasks off team members' plates. You could argue this is the ultimate goal of AIOps across the board. Automation: This wouldn't be a Zapier piece without a workflow automation shoutout.

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