MBA Mondays Archives - AVC

I wrote a blog post about this topic in November 2010 that has become one of the most searched on and referenced AVC posts of all time. The numbers in that blog post are long out of date and so I...

https://avc.com/2019/08/employee-equity-how-much-2/

Litigation is something I try to avoid. It is way better to work out differences by sitting down and negotiating a reasonable deal for both parties. But litigation is a fact of life in business. ...

https://avc.com/2018/12/litigation/

In the fall of 2010, I wrote a series of nine blog posts about Employee Equity as part of MBA Mondays. You can read all of them at the links below: Employee Equity: How Much? November 22, 2010 E...

https://avc.com/2018/04/the-employee-equity-project/

I wrote this in July 2011, as a part of an MBA Mondays series on financing structures: ————————————————————- MBA Mondays are back after a one week hiatus. ...

https://avc.com/2017/03/from-the-archives-convertible-debt/

I picked up a bad head cold in SF this week. It’s rainy and cold there and that got the best of me. So I’m running a post from the archives and medicating myself instead of writing today. Ret...

https://avc.com/2017/02/from-the-archives-retaining-your-team/

I’m on a short vacation in Utah for the next few days and so I’m going to pull an oldie but goodie out of the archives. I’ve been seeing a lot of “turning the team” in our portfolio as ...

https://avc.com/2017/01/from-the-archives-turning-your-team/

Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I get asked this question. Are we in a bubble? I’ve been getting asked that question for at least four years now. It’s hard to sustain a bubble for four y...

https://avc.com/2014/03/the-bubble-question/

I chromecasted the kitchen laptop to our family room TV yesterday morning and watched the entire Sarah Lacy interview with Dick Costolo. Yes, I had posted it as the video of the week without watc...

https://avc.com/2013/12/taking-to-dos-and-moving-up-the-y-axis/

Longtime readers will know this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I did a whole MBA Mondays series on this topic and I followed that up with a Skillshare class on the topic. So I was excited ...

https://avc.com/2013/11/employee-equity/

If a Company is making huge profits this year but will not make any profits in the future, it is worthless in the eyes of an investor. But if it loses money this year and next year and may lose m...

https://avc.com/2013/10/they-dont-make-any-money/