Q: What costs are considered reimbursable to the founder of a start-up company? More specifically, if the founder has been boot-strapping his company since inception, and he agrees to a series a term sheet with a VC firm, are the operational costs incurred by the founder between this time and the closing of the round […]
Well – I fell off that particular horse. That would be the “I’ll blog daily about the best VC blog post of the past 24 hours.” I could make some snarky comment about how there weren’t any for the last few weeks, but that wouldn’t be true. I just fell of the horse. But yesterday, […]
Question: Does one need to switch an LLC to a corporation to raise VC funding? Would you recommend starting out as a corporation pre-money or as an LLC? The short answer is yes, you have to be a corporation to raise VC funding VCs will want you to be a C-Corp for a few specific […]
Dan Shapiro has an excellent post up titled What to do when an investor asks you for your business plan. In it he addresses something we missed in Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist. In the section where we discuss business plans, we say: “We haven’t read a business plan in […]
Question: What is your take on entrepreneurs who have young children or otherwise active family lives? Is this a factor in funding decisions? I try to live with a family-first mentality but find it hard to compete with young unattached entrepreneurs who can put startup-first. My answer is simple – this shouldn’t be a factor […]
Bryce Roberts (OATV) totally nails it in his post titled You Can Never Size a Market in Excel. The punch line is: “In every single case that I’ve seen this question (“how big can it get”) persist over more than 2 meetings, it has NEVER been resolved. NEVER.” There’s plenty of great stuff in the post […]
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