4 startup equity and employment agreement gotchas
Convertible debt should count in total shares outstanding b/c it almost *always* converts. Properly-written double triggers give meaningful…
Observations 6 months after leaving the VC business
Image by Xosé Castro via Flickr It has been a little over 6 months since I took the…
Are business plans a waste of time?
Social connections trump business plans by a long shot, says Goldfarb Thus it is that people who already…
Are all the good venture capital deals competitive?
A venture capitalist I know once told me that he only wants to do competitive deals (deals in…
Lean hiring tips from Eric Ries of IMVU
Eric Ries is keeping a blog called Lessons Learned where he discusses the application of formal rigor and…
Making the pie bigger
Founders spend lots of time, money, blood, sweat, and tears in creating a new business, and they obviously…