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By: Is Convertible Debt Preferable to Equity? | Both Sides of the Table

Is Convertible Debt Preferable to Equity? | Both Sides of the Table — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:58:31 +0000

[...] I have to say that I didn’t take the question to mean that convertible debt had won for the entire market, but either way it’s clear that convertible debt has become an increasing trend. I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. [...]

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Raising Angel Money — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:40:35 +0000

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By: Catharsis

Catharsis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:35:31 +0000

[...] put, I’ve been bootstrapping the business for long enough. The time has come to raise some capital and to take things to the next level. I hope to take you along with me on my [...]

By: Don't Try to Raise Capital Before You Know How It's Done

Don't Try to Raise Capital Before You Know How It's Done — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:02:00 +0000

[...] and tons and tons and tons of resources out there on this subject. Read them all. And then read more. It will take awhile, but it’s worth the time. Either you’ll realize that raising [...]

By: Justin Thiele

Justin Thiele — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:43:29 +0000

“Most companies have binary outcomes: you’re either really successful as a company or you’re not. Unfortunately the overwhelming majority of companies end up in the latter category. You know the old saying, “a larger percentage of zero is still zero.” So my advice is to stack the odds as much in your favor as possible.”

This is a great bit of “reality check” advice. Right on the money.

By: Justin Thiele

Justin Thiele — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:43:29 +0000

This is a great bit of “reality check” advice. Right on the money.

By: Justin Thiele

Justin Thiele — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:43:29 +0000

This is a great bit of “reality check” advice. Right on the money.

By: What to do about that first round of funding? « Tech Strategy

What to do about that first round of funding? « Tech Strategy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:18:54 +0000

[...] to a post that I don’t think I could improve upon much. See Mark Suster’s thoughtful post for a discussion on pricing your first round, or taking convertible [...]

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:48:18 +0000

Mark, thank you very much for your reply. I appreciate it immensely.

Shane

By: valto val

valto val — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:16:09 +0000

I started to wonder. Why does everything need to be custom? How far could this actually be fixed. Like Y-combinator in their way of doing this, by offering one model and then fit/select start ups to match that?

That could be extend that to have more than one fixed version ie. S/M/L sizes? To make it easier, select only industry like web/mobile.

I feel there are too many variables in the area that they dont seem to add real value to the process. “custom deals” in many other industries are considered “niche”, that don’t scale that well

And I think Startups would be happy to fit themselves to fixed terms as long as those are fair.