This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 10, 2014

Either you dump your phone into the black hole known as your bag, never to be heard from again, or it sits right there on the table as the third wheel. There''s nothing more distracting than having a phone buzz on your table or needing to walk around with it all the time. For women, its worse.

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The deal lead and founders worked hard together to line up investors, negotiate terms, work through deal documents and disclosure schedules, and track down every last detail of cap tables. As usual it took longer than expected, everyone is exhausted and the company needs the money urgently to make long-postponed investments in growth.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

Soon I’ll have spent more time on cap tables than org charts. The alignment gap between investors *starts* at the Series A, meaning earlier preferred investors cannot assume their interests are always aligned with the rest of the cap table. That’s a 2025 milestone as Homebrew turns 12.5

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Building a team of talented and passionate individuals who complement your skills will bring a different and necessary perspectives to the table. Building a team of talented and passionate individuals who complement your skills will bring a different and necessary perspectives to the table.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 8, 2020

They just have a QR code at the table that you aim your phone camera at and are taken to the menu. Most of us have seen some version of this chart that shows how the Covid pandemic has accelerated e-commerce adoption: What is interesting to me is that it has also impacted in person retail experiences.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 2, 2015

Yet, as cash friendly as Slack could be--where it could easily have Kickstarter or Craigslist-like cashflow to cap table like ratios, it is still raising hundreds of millions of dollars. You would have also passed on Fitbit, Nest, Tesla, SpaceX, Blue Apron, Makerbot and a whole host of other things. At least you would have done Slack.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2019

If it’s a table of 4 you’re hardly going to ask for a private room in a restaurant but I would certainly pick somewhere extra quiet and visit it in advance to book the quietest table. The goal is to lead a table-wide discussion where you’re the facilitator. We’ll come back to table topics after the main course.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

It is unlikely that founders will be able to force investors out of their cap tables via the secondary markets, but a voluntary separation via the secondary market seems more likely to me. I also think startup boards need to evolve. There should be many more independent directors and many fewer investor directors on startup boards.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Although it may be intimidating, you aren’t against the wall – you are at the table with everyone else. Treating Q&A as a One-Way Street Founders can take a firing squad approach to Q&A. They tend to enter a room with their backs against the wall and get blasted with questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

almost certainly there will be no overlap from those first three deals you thought were high quality and the 4 or 5 you’re now ready to pound your fist on the table to say you should fund.” In all likelihood 7 or 8 deals would really stand out as truly exceptional, MUST DO, slam-your-first-on-the-table type deals. But here’s the rub?—?almost

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Create a table with the different collaboration modalities your team uses in the left hand column—email, phone calls, IM, collaborative spaces, etc. Then, have two other columns in this table: Norms the team wants to agree on. Spend 30-60 minutes as a team and agree on what I call an “architecture of collaboration.”

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Our personalities were compatible, but we brought different skill sets and perspectives to the table. Each team member should bring something unique to the table, and the teams combined efforts should create a synergy that propels the startup toward its goals.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 17, 2015

It will help you figure out why you're doing something, what you bring to the table to an unknown thing, and how to start thinking about pacing your progress.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

From the founder’s perspective, it is a missed opportunity to bring an additional third-party investor onto the cap table who can help diversify funding sources and add strategic value. These are not hypotheticals — I have seen this play out more than once over the last five years.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 23, 2020

This week, I am going to teach a three-hour class on cap tables and liquidation waterfalls. As I prepared for it this weekend, I decided to create the bare bones of a google sheet that will have one tab for the cap table and another for the liquidation waterfall. But now they are taking place online.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

We asked Cheng, founder of The Table Less Traveled , which organizes boutique, small-group international culinary tours, how she made a significant pivot to save her business. Her pivot was recently listed in New York Magazine among industry favorites including Gordon Ramsay and Sur La Table. Here’s what she shared.

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Dream It

MAY 19, 2021

Better to get this out on the table so you don’t waste time with a fund that will never invest in your deal. On the other hand, maybe you and your board have confidence that the amount being raised is the minimum required to achieve key milestones and a smaller raise simply does not make sense.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 10, 2020

Typically the only thing we all have to agree on is what the cap table will look like before and after the financing so that the correct numbers are put into the documents. Everything else is pretty standard anyway. There is this narrative that equity rounds are expensive and take a long time and that SAFE notes are quick and inexpensive.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

I have a portfolio where 50% of the investments have founders that come from diverse backgrounds—and yes, I want them to get money from all of the still-active funds on Uber’s cap table that benefitted from the IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2015

The post One Simple Paragraph Every Entrepreneur Should Add to Their Convertible Notes appeared first on Bothsides of the Table. But the text I have above will be effective, will work and will end the practice of angel investors preying on entrepreneurs that don’t know any better until after you’ve screwed them.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 7, 2022

When you bring multiple buyers to the table in an auction-like environment, you know you’re making the best deal the market can bear. This should include steps to get your books in order, conduct a professional business valuation , seek professional legal input, and consult an M&A advisory expert to explore all options on the table.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Educational videos, whiteboard animations, video explainers — each popular type of marketing video brings something unique to the table, and it’s critical to use the right tool at the right time to get the results you want! So, how can you determine which video is best for your strategy’s needs? Read on, and you’ll learn all about it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2023

This would benefit not only employees but also the business, as it would bring different perspectives, ideas, and ways of thinking to the table. We need to create a culture that celebrates and supports working mothers and recognizes the unique skills and perspectives that they bring to the table.

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The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 25, 2023

In Part I of this article we gave an overview of capitalization tables and the key terms used in cap table analysis that every investor must understand: Valuations, Security Types and Share Counts.

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capital 291

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 13, 2022

I mean trusting what each one brings to the table—and being honest about the process of earning that trust and what it means to having a productive relationship. For example, if you’re a sales oriented founder that gets backed pre-launch, then an investor isn’t going to assume that founder has any product design skills.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2022

The best boards are ones that bring a diversity of perspective to the table—and this is especially true for Web3 companies who are in the middle of a frenzied and turbulent market. Those companies were funded by the investors who participated in the prior crash, not the ones that ignored the internet entirely.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

That’s something I didn’t realize when I was a founder sitting on the other side of the table. Before the call, I will try to visit your site and check out your deck, but as an associate, I talk to tons of companies and don’t always have the time to do a proper deep dive. So context is key.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Density & the Future of Real Estate was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When a dismal job market upended my hopes of becoming a high school English teacher, I ventured into the food and wine industry in my home state of Colorado: I began waiting tables at a restaurant called The Med.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

I backed that company in 2013 when it was basically a table top science project, but the key was a series of connections that could have only been possible as a full time investor. Take the example of goTenna , a thriving communications hardware startup located in Downtown Brooklyn that employees almost 50 people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 1, 2022

On the other side of the table is the conference room, where we focus on business. Combining the dinner table with the conference room table is not easy, and not everyone can relate to the challenge. On the one hand, family (hopefully!) symbolizes a place of love and security.

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