Stories from Ask the VC
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What Are VC Firm's Efforts To Connect Firms In Their Portfolio With Fresh MBA Grads?
Ask the VC &bull Nov 26, 2011
Question: How would you describe VC firm's efforts to connect firms in their portfolio with fresh MBA grads? Typical? Rare? Never? Im just curious because here in Philadelphia, First Round Capital is posting a lot of job offers for firms… Full Story »
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Levine: Trends in MA Deal Terms
Ask the VC &bull Nov 4, 2011
Today's post of the day is from my partner Seth Levine (Foundry Group) and is titled Trends in M Deal Terms. Seth has been involved in several significant acquisitions recently, including Google's acquisition of AdMeld and Federated Media's acquisition of… Full Story »
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Wilson: What's The Difference Between A CTO And A VP Engineering?
Ask the VC &bull Oct 31, 2011
Today's VC Post of the Day is from Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) titled VP Engineering Vs CTO. I've written about this on Feld Thoughts before in a post titled CTO vs. VP Engineering(I wonder how Google is going to… Full Story »
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Skok: Multi-axis Pricing: A Key Tool for Increasing SaaS Revenue
Ask the VC &bull Oct 26, 2011
David Skok (Matrix) has today's great post up titled Multi-axis Pricing: a key tool for increasing SaaS revenue. If your business uses a subscription pricing model, this is a must read post. While David positions it as SaaS related post,… Full Story »
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Mentors, Revenue Based Financing, and Misperceptions About Venture Capital
Ask the VC &bull Oct 17, 2011
It's Monday and our friendly neighborhood VCs stored up their posts over the weekend and launched a few with a vengeance. Today, we have three great ones. Roger Ehrenberg (IA) writes about mentors in his post Mentors: an essential engine… Full Story »
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- Fred Wilson
- Roger Ehrenberg
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Roberts: You're Doing It All Wrong
Ask the VC &bull Oct 14, 2011
Every great company I've ever worked with has its own style, personality, approach, strengths, weaknesses, and quirks. Experience - and inexperience - when combined with an amazing new opportunity, creates really unique characteristics that - over time - mix with… Full Story »
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Go: Startup Jargon Series: DISRUPTION
Ask the VC &bull Oct 12, 2011
This is going to be fun. Rob Go (NextView) is taking on "Startup Jargon" with a new series. Many moons ago Fred Wilson wrote a great blog series on VC Cliches. It's timeless. Let's hope Rob lives up to Fred's… Full Story »
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Wenger: Tech Tuesdays
Ask the VC &bull Oct 11, 2011
We've got Fred Wilson blogging the incredible MBA Mondays series. I (Brad Feld) have started a Finance Friday series. And now Fred's partner Albert Wenger has started a Tech Tuesday series. Albert is a hard core developer turned VC. He's… Full Story »
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Weiss: Looking Bigger
Ask the VC &bull Oct 6, 2011
Scott's a new VC blogger - I've gotten to know him over the past few years on the Return Path board and he's a dynamite thinker. He's got amazingly useful experience (and stories) from his last company - IronPort -… Full Story »
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How Many Shares Should I Use To Incorporate My Company?
Ask the VC &bull Oct 3, 2011
Keep it simple. The more shares you authorize, the more you'll have to pay in taxes (although these are not large numbers). They key is having enough shares to have the ability to grant all sorts of equity to different… Full Story »
