Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

Step 1: Get MAD – Remember your M ission, assess your A ssets, document the D emand. Board members. D: Document the Demand – List out any loud signals the market or your customers have given you of things they want. Those who come up with plenty of ideas but struggle to identify which ones are worth pursuing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For businesses that are ready to revamp their employee equity plan, here are a few key lessons we figured out along the way: Get buy-in from your board of directors. The first step should be a discussion with your board, likely during the next board meeting. After the key stakeholders are aligned, loop in the experts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I would also recommend you consult an experienced immigration attorney who can help you determine the best approach based on your timing and goals. If demonstrating an employer-employee relationship, that usually involves showing that your startup’s board of directors oversees your work and can fire you. Take a listen!

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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’ve got to go ask another engineer who might be busy with something.”

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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. Here is where the concept of fiduciary duty looms large.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Lead generation, consulting on the phone, following up with emails within the same day—all of it matters. For me, that meant constantly seeking out professional guidance by investing in consultants early on. This has nothing to do with your expertise in your field, but everything to do with business systems.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We’ve gathered insights from CEOs, founders, and top executives on their most successful methods, from combining chat and asynchronous video to actively listening and documenting meetings. Michael Sena , CEO & Lead Analytics Consultant, Senacea Ltd. Most importantly, make sure you listen to understand, not just to respond.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In Part I , I gave a quick summary of the who, when and why of forming and documenting a new startup company. I urge all entrepreneurs to consult and develop a good working relationship with a qualified startup lawyer. Determine who will serve on the Board of Directors and in executive officer positions (usually founders).

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. While you have undoubtedly already shared these responses by email or live discussion, it’s helpful to see all the correspondence documents in one place.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2024

Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over two to four years of service. Many early-stage CEOs and board members have asked for some guidance regarding pay and time commitments for board members. Here is my best advice, based upon many boards and many years. Realistic human images.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Free Early Stage Consult - Fox will hire an outside consultant to provide advice on pitch decks or executive summaries.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 11, 2020

This might include foregoing any pre-paid tuition or room and board at your university; it might also incur re-enrollment fees. Understand your situation, so you do not put your matriculation in jeopardy. Understand the costs of taking a leave. Learn what a gap semester might cost you before making any big decisions. Talk to your parents.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Content strategy consulting: When you get good at content remixing and know which type of content performs best on which channels, you can consult creators. Business Idea #5: Employment Coaching Sadly, there's lots of layoffs across the board in many different companies, and more and more people are looking for work.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Consultant: You are one of many and until you get to the final round, your primary job is to survive and advance through each round. When it’s a consultant pitch, think through how you can win through RFI?—?RFP?—?Chemistry?—?Finals. Hot Tip: create a Miro board mapping all of the efforts and use this to keep your team in check.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Here’s how I learned my lesson: I started my life as a consultant. Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. But for my sins I got an MBA and did “strategy&# consulting. Nobody was surprised. I encourage it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. Post MBA I went into strategy consulting where my job was to problem solve for clients. This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again. It’s not.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

blocking a quorum, or preventing a shareholder/board action). This could be through shareholder voting rights (set through a super-majority that gives that investor a block) or at the board-level (on certain decisions that require board approval like the consent of each preferred director).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2023

Document what is successful right now. This is when you get your staff on board with the overall systematization of your follow-up processes. There are many reasons your staff will want to help you document and improve the follow-up processes. Edit the documentation to include the new processes you have built.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2020

He recruited Ann, a member of the firm’s Advisory Board, to be an independent facilitator. The records division would be included in the last batch to be migrated, to give ample time to convert all documents and processes to digital forms. Everything—even business meetings— would be done online after four weeks.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I worked with the board who encouraged me to bring in heavy weights. I was able to hire the former European head of sales for the largest document management player in the world. In our second year of sales we did $5.9 million and our third year we hit $7.7 So we were starting to become a real business. I shot as high as I could.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. So it should be no surprise that “yes” doesn’t come easily.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. Any corporate strategy document will remain a fantasy on paper if your tech infrastructure is outdated and incapable of meeting your future needs. Grant Easterbrook. Contributor. Share on Twitter. His work has been cited in the media over 150 times.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As an angel investor, you might sit on the board of one or more companies. Then, you can simply provide companies with your FinCEN identifier rather than submitting all your personal information and the photograph of your document each time. Unincorporated general partnerships will not have to make these filings. FinCEN Identifier.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He says he loved PowerPoint and before becoming a founder, spent 10 years building presentations, including stints teaching university students how to make engaging ones, and then at his first job at a consultant at BCG. Sydney- and San Francisco-based Chronicle was born as a result.

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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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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. The Hairy Hotel.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Keep these documents constantly up to date, so all team members are aligned on key numbers, e.g., total dollars raised so far. Make sure to compile all your answers in a single document, so that you can recycle those answers. .

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Keep these documents constantly up to date, so all team members are aligned on key numbers, e.g., total dollars raised so far. Make sure to compile all your answers in a single document, so that you can recycle those answers. .

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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. And when Jocelyn got on board, we were able to sit down. You get more work back from your efforts. Shane Sams: That’s right, man.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

The best part, he documented the journey so others could follow in his legendary foot steps. For example, while I was dosed up on MicroAcquire’s newsletter Heroin, I was working as a sales consult at an MSP, I was buying single family rental properties, and trying to grow a small bootstrapped SaaS company called LookUpDatabase.com.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Have you ever thought of creating an advisory board? Usually, you would want to create an advisory board to fill in the critical areas of need not evidenced in the board of directors or within the company itself. How many advisors should you seek for a board? How do you pay an advisory board?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Deal rooms contain access to or copies of all significant contracts with suppliers, customers, consultants, and others. All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

Data rooms contain access to or copies of all significant contracts with suppliers, customers, consultants, and others. All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Who will use it and when? The payoff.

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Feedough

MARCH 21, 2021

This saves a lot of cost in terms of services or consulting. But since the LLP structure requires no formation of a board of directors, it discourages investors. Huge documentation : An LLP must maintain hefty records of its names of partners, any changes thereof, fees and payment proof, etc. Handoo and Handoo LLP.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

You could argue this is the ultimate goal of AIOps across the board. Automated resolution suggestions AIOps can collect data from issue logs and resolution documentation to suggest possibilities for similar tickets later. Consult with your IT team: Before you get started, have a conversation with your IT team.

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