Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

In fact, the process of organizing and documenting these elements is the best way to make sure you understand the answers yourself. It only takes a little extra work to make it a professional document, with a cover page, table of contents, headings, and page numbers.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

San Diego-based Deposit Defender says it has launched a new app, which helps renters photo-document rental property inspections, in order to prevent future loss of their security deposits. The company said that its app--which stores that data in the cloud--also can be used by landlords to inspects and document their rental properties.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

architecture document international nemetschek acquisition merger software bluebeam' The companies said that Bluebeam will continue with its current management team, operating as an independent brand company. Bluebeam was a spun out of Alliance Spacesystems, and has received investments from both the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. AI-powered tools can handle routine inquiries and draft standard documents, freeing up legal staff for complex tasks.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 7, 2018

But to find what is important, we usually must at least scan a document or email, engaged for no less than a short moment and perhaps for the full reading of the document before moving on to look for important issues to resolve. … It is human nature to filter through the stack or inbox, looking for the important items.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Berkonomics

JULY 2, 2020

Then find ways to build concepts, plans, documents, and actions through the collective collaboration of your key group. Create a document with your basic plan or idea for action. Create a document with your basic plan or idea for action. How to test the system. Email readers, continue here…] It is easy to test the system.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

We all have hunches, but if we do not diligently document them, we risk losing them. Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. The key is to document and challenge the veracity of your ideas at the time they occur to you. Hunches cannot be combined if they are forgotten. Chaos By Design .

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

But for today, and even with non-completes or even confidentiality agreements you do not sign… The obvious admonition To you and to everyone: do not take customer lists, design documents or any document considered a trade secret from any previous employer or previous consulting customer. Digital or analog! Realistic images.”

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In most states, employees gain rights after the ninetieth day on the job that make it more difficult to fire an underperforming employee without careful documentation of reasons for concern. Then there is the ninety-day clock to consider.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

. - 500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? (..)

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based software developer CapLinked , which develops secure document sharing software for the business market, has linked with secure identification software developer Civic , the two companies said this week. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 12, 2018

Recognize the realities of the times; and do all possible to protect the company by documenting behavioral or skill related problems to the employee file. Hold regular reviews for all your employees right to the top.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

So to be clear, if a company owns 8% of your company but has negative blocking rights as outlined above in the NVCA guidelines, you are ineligible for the program unless you modify your legal governing documents. How do I amend my legal documents so that the Affiliate Rule doesn’t stop me from applying for a loan?

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2021

Irvine-based document automation systems provider Kofax said this week that it has acquired PSIGEN Software, a developer of document capture, content management and workflow automation software. According to Kofax, the deal will add to its existing document capture software and solutions.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Up-to-date insurance policies, leases, financial documents and schedules such as fixed assets are copied here. Who will use it and when? The payoff.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. It doesn’t.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

Because the Internet has such a long memory and documents from the distant past can be found with ease, a search the “The Berkus Method” today will yield a number of conflicting valuations culled from the many subsequent publications of the method over the ensuing years.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 14, 2018

The rules for “pledging an invoice” as collateral for borrowing call for attaching signed shipping documents showing that the goods have been picked up by the carrier, at which point the title transfers to the customer and the invoice from the company is “good”. Adding facts to the case. Decision changes?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 20, 2020

You know that the buyer will be crawling the offices with legal and accounting personnel, reviewing contracts, financials, governance documentation, intellectual property, leases, and much more. [Email readers, continue here…] First, should you inform your employees of the deal? When to make an internal announcement.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

If you’ve done a good job in the sales process you’ve already written out a needs document in which your wrote out what you believe the customer problems are with specific examples. But the number one reason sales stall when customers see the value in what you do is because they often don’t have a reason to buy NOW.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The investor organization is granted the seat if the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. Why these restrictions? In later insights, we will explore the legal and ethical responsibilities of board members.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

In the document it outlines that you will issue stock at a $5m pre-money valuation and in recognition of the additional risks and commitments of early money you have allocated warrants to the first $150,000 of investors. Especially if it was memorialized in the documents why you were doing it. You can do it with equity & a price.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If you’re seeking investment from anyone other than friends and family, you’re probably going to have to navigate through the exercise of careful planning, documentation and execution. And who is right here? Investors are a fickle bunch. But speed and iterations are attractive benefits. Cowboy coding in software and Internet development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2014

Documenting and Ratifying Important Decisions Afterward. The most frustrating thing as a board member and also somebody who has attended meetings of significance for the past 25 years is the sheer numbers of times that decisions reached in meetings aren’t properly documents or remembered correctly after the fact.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

Since I had built 2 document management companies I knew all the reasons why building a document management company would “never work.” Aaron was very impressive and had I not had so much “experience” in documents perhaps I would have backed him but my narrative fallacy got in the way. billion!

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2021

Los Angeles-based cloud-based operations and document management software developer Docupace, which serves the wealth management industry, says it has acquired jaccomo, which develops a compliance, data integration, financial reporting, and advisor compensation accounting system. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Yet, most of us would want to have such documentation of progress other than an invoice. Pay only upon receipt of invoices, not with regularly triggered checks or transfers of uniform amounts without invoice documents to back up the payments. An undefined period of time favors the ruling as employee. Reporting: Here is a surprise.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

To protect against this, there must be some document in place from the beginning that clearly states the expectation of each founder as to contribution of time and resources to the enterprise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Here are five of the most common examples: Failure to document a Founder agreement at the beginning. Even trade secrets need to be documented, and reasonable steps taken to keep them secret. Business plans and other documents should always be labeled as confidential. Founders ignore non-compete clauses from former employers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

Their modus operandi is, “send us all your comments by marking up our entire document.” You get back a document that has 5,000 redlines on it. ” That is a form of “let’s negotiate in an entirety rather than piecemeal.” ” They’re even happier if they don’t have to do it face-to-face.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2021

Hawthorne-based rocket and spacecraft developer SpaceX has put together plans to launch a Starship into orbit from Texas, with landing off the coast of Hawaii, according to documents filed with the FCC. Timing of the launch is unclear.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 18, 2024

We have investigated the restrictions imposed by investment documents and the obvious need to keep continuity on the board with the retention of the CEO position at the very least. No board member should be grandfathered, guaranteed a board seat forever. Practically speaking, this is an impossible goal.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

All the documents were signed in a rolling series of emailed scanned or DocuSign signature pages during the past week or more, with each party signing their own set, never having to be in the same room to sign the single signature page for each agreement. How it happens today.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Read Document Your MVP for a Developer for all of the detail that you really need to provide. I just want the cost, timeline and impact. But my developers want to go into way too much detail.

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