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Jason Mendelson
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Jason Mendelson's personal blog at jasonmendelson.com covers startups, business and economics. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Why There Will Never be a Standard Set of Seed Documents”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Mendelson's post on the conflict between diversified VCs and concentrated entrepreneurs. One commenter cites it to support a point about founder and investor goals.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Home page of Jason Mendelson. Jason Mendelson't official website. Also the website for the musician Jace Allen
Most-linked posts?
- Why There Will Never be a Standard Set of Seed Documents2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-16
What Hacker News says?
A thoughtful analysis by a knowledgeable lawyer (Yokum Taku of WSGR) of various seed-stage terms and their use in standardized sets of financing documents appears here: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2010/03/14/how-do-the-sa... . As appears from his useful chart comparing the various standard sets, investors (and lawyers) just have different ideas of what they regard as important for different types of investme…
Comment linking /wp/archives/2010/03/why-there-will-never-be-a-standard-set-of-seed-documents-a-k-a-why-brad-feld-will-fail.php
on “The Future of Startup Funding”Submitted Watch Out Boston, a Rip-Off Is Coming to Town as a story · 17 points
HN discussionTherin lies the problem. That is the fundamental conflict between the diversified vc and the concentrated entrepreneur. It is not a secret, in fact a lot of good VCs want entrepreneurs to have a very clear understanding of what the end goal is. Mendelson touches on this in a post: http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2013/06/the-vc-bar...
Comment linking /wp/archives/2013/06/the-vc-bargain.php
on “Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook”Submitted Why Do I Need Facebook When I Have Twitter as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSome perceptive comments taking strong issue with the idea that the VC industry is broken from Jason Mendelson: http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/06/apparently... . His comment about today's investment environment for VCs is "what's not to like." Well worth the read.
Comment linking /wp/archives/2009/06/apparently-529-of-venture-capitalists-are-deluded.php
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