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Competitors Don't Matter(waseem.substack.com)
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Lessons from Being Acquired Twice(waseem.substack.com)
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"The competition" doesn't matter(waseem.substack.com)
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There's no “right” way to fund your company(waseem.substack.com)
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by wdaher 5y ago
I've been on the receiving end of one three times now, but have never "hosted" one myself. As an angel, I'd probably always prefer to invest directly, but if my alternative were "RUV or you can't invest,&quot
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by wdaher 5y ago
This is definitely anecdata, but sometimes they will. In particular, I've definitely been asked to reduce my own allocation to let someone else in.
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by wdaher 5y ago
Agreed. The caveat on all of this is "Assuming everyone is an accredited investor." (I've edited the original post to make that clearer.)
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by wdaher 5y ago
The other framing of the problem is: If you're going to raise a fixed amount of $X, is it better to raise it from a large number of angels (each writing smaller checks), or a small number of firms (each writing larger checks)? I'd
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by wdaher 5y ago
Updated!
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by wdaher 5y ago
Post author here — I'm not affiliated with AngelList at all, though I did invest via one of their RUVs once and was a fan of the experience. (I'd largely written the post before even being aware of that offering, which is why it&#
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by wdaher 5y ago
Definitely +1 on needing to vet no matter what--no amount of clever corporate structure or legal agreement will save you from someone being a pain
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You can't have too many angels(waseem.substack.com)
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A rule for email: only do one thing per email(waseem.substack.com)
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No one cares that you're a unicorn(waseem.substack.com)
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Sales Advice for the Technical Founder(waseem.substack.com)
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A backwards approach to naming your startup(waseem.substack.com)
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Will your startup make you happy?(waseem.substack.com)
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Pilot becomes latest fintech unicorn with Bezos-led funding round(techcrunch.com)
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by wdaher 6y ago
+1 to Founding Sales — it's great, and Pete is great as well
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by wdaher 6y ago
Yes, what you're describing is incredibly common. What we're hearing is that small community banks were most successful at actually getting this money into the hands of businesses, whereas the large banks were fairly slow. (And ma
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Benefits for startups in the new federal stimulus package(medium.com)
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Index, Stripe back bookkeeping service Pilot.com with $40M(pilot.com)
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by wdaher 7y ago
Hi! Not doing this to be evasive but because I think we can probably have a higher-bandwidth chat about the exact specifics of it by phone, if you're up for it. Can I encourage you to drop me a note at waseem@pilot.com or we can schedu
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by wdaher 7y ago
Yes, generally you have to use something like a bill.com or routable ( https://routable.com/ ) if you want to track an AP flow starting with the bill in that way. (There's a more premium version of Pilot Plus where you b
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by wdaher 7y ago
We do the reconciliation—and you're exactly right that QBO doesn't have a reconciliation API, so we have to do it outside of QuickBooks in our own system. (But yes, we've found that if you don't do this reconciliation, t
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by wdaher 7y ago
Hi there! Pilot CEO here. We do accrual bookkeeping by default but we can do cash-basis bookkeeping too, if you require it. By and large our requirements are around the use of electronic systems to capture data (so, if you have a stack of p
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by wdaher 7y ago
Yes, our first company (Ksplice) got an NSF SBIR Phase I. We had bootstrapped the company, and the grant was definitely helpful! (Having said that, the application process is pretty onerous and so are the bookkeeping/timetracking requi
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Winnie raises $4M to make parents’ lives easier(techcrunch.com)
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by wdaher 9y ago
Yep, we generally point people at QuickBooks invoices or bill.com, but we have them do the inputting/sending of the invoices via one of those services.
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by wdaher 9y ago
Hi Ian! Congrats to you folks on the recent funding round as well.

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