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Lean Startup, Startup Recruiting, Financing and Startup Accelerators

May 14, 2012 by Ben Yoskovitz

I’ve never found a great system for bubbling up older content on a blog. It’s so transient. Posts last a week at most and then they disappear into the archive. I’ve tried a few things, and here’s my latest attempt to collect and organize some of my posts on key topics of interest. In the […]

Filed Under: Startups

Raising Financing: Convertible Debt vs. Equity

September 1, 2010 by Ben Yoskovitz

Seth Levine from Foundry Group touched off a debate on which is the best way to raise startup financing: convertible debt or equity. Paul Graham (intentionally or not) actually started things with a tweet, “Convertible notes have won. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done […]

Filed Under: Startup Fundraising

Use of Funds

March 26, 2010 by Ben Yoskovitz

Almost every investor pitch, whether to angel investors or venture capitalists involves one slide near the end about how much money a startup is looking to raise, milestones it hopes to achieve and generally, the “use of funds.” The intent behind describing the use of funds is to explain to the potential investors how you […]

Filed Under: Startup Fundraising

Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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