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Choice of Entity - C Corps, S Corps, LLCs?
We've written plenty in the past about choice of entities and which ones might make sense for your particular business, but today we found a cool
Visualizing Your Portfolio
Fred Wilson has today's great post up titled Portfolio Screens. This is the second post that describes how Fred is thinking about his portfolio right now and follows anot...
SaaS and Cost Cutting vs. Sales
Today's two great VC posts are from David Cowan and Stu Phillips.David writes on The Prospects for SaaS. He also discusses his mixed experience wi...
What To Do When You Are In A Circular Discussion With A VC
Q: I am part of a tech start-up that's in a slight conundrum. In order to place our product in its market, we've had to provide it to customers free of charge. Now, the majority of our revenue model is based on advertisement fee's and s...
What's Your Burn Rate Mean?
Today's great post is from Fred Wilson and is titled The Survival Matrix. Fred and his partners at Union Square Ventures giv...
How Does the Current Macro Economy Affect Venture Capitalists and Startups?
We've gotten many emails over the past few days wondering how the meltdown is going to affect VCs and startups. The quick answer is "not much of an effect - so far." Just linking around, here are some posts that you might want to ...
Why Wont The Venture Capitalist Return My Phone Call?
Q: We pitched to a venture group 3 times in July and August. They kept telling us that they were very interested and wanted to learn more about our venture so we shared complete details of our venture hoping that they would invest. ...
How Do I Do Multiple Closings for an Angel Round?
Q: How do I do multiple closings on a single round work? In our case, we have an investor wishing to give us headstart, certainly I imagine not an uncommon case in friend and family scenarios, though here we’d have multiple rounds of an...
What Price Adjustments Do You See Prior To Closing In A Financing?
Q: Can you please explain what sort of adjustments you should expect to the price that a VC promises in a term sheet between the signing of the term sheet and signing of a final stock purchase agreement (SPA)?A: (Jason) To a...
What Are the Pros and Cons of Investment From a Strategic Entity?
Q: Can you please touch on issues associated with first round financings from corporate or strategic investors. Particularly when the strategic is a competitor. What are some of the pitfalls and opportunities associated with this type of an i...
How Should I Approach a VC I Don't Know?
Q: Everyone tells me the way to approach a venture capitalist I don’t know is through a friendly introduction from someone who already knows that VC. But what happens if I don’t have the connections to get that introduction? Am I s...
Paul Graham on Fundraising
Today's great post is from Paul Graham and is titled A Fundraising Survival Guide. Paul runs Y Combinator and has been involved in nu...
Answer The Question Honestly
Rick Segal has today's great post up titled From the Trenches: OS Who? In addition to being enlightening, it's hilarious. He's also got s...
How Many Deals Should Be Needed To Return A VC Fund?
Fred Wilson has another excellent post up titled Venture Fund Economics: When One Deal Returns The Fund. He continues his expose on how VC funds work and builds ...
How Venture Fund Economics Work
Today's great post if by Fred Wilson titled titled Venture Fund Economics. "When I write about venture fund returns, there are alwa...
How Gross and Net Returns Work For Venture Funds
Fred Wilson has another post on Venture Fund Returns titled Gross and Net Returns. AsktheVC would like to formally thank Fred for doing our work for us, as we periodica...
