A monthly roundup of enterprise news, thoughts and updates from Emergence Capital. For more content, visit: playbook.emcap.com
Oct 2, 2017
22 min
Emergence Capital partner Joe Floyd talks to Jett McCandless about his journey as an entrepreneur and how he founded project44, bringing digitization to the trucking and logistics industry.
Oct 2, 2017
14 min
Emergence Capital partner Santi Subotovsky sits down with Zoom’s Eric Yuan to talk about his company’s early beginnings and the importance of company culture and happiness.
Oct 2, 2017
19 min
Chitra sits down with Emergence’s Jake Saper to discuss her move from BCG to Salesforce and now COO of Comfy. She shares her thoughts on how to bring cohesiveness across job functions in an organization and pricing strategies.
Aug 31, 2017
20 min
Brian Patterson of Gunderson Dettmer On Early Stage Financing and How To Structure Convertible Notes
Brian Patterson, Partner at Silicon Valley law firm Gunderson Dettmer, chats with Emergence’s Joe Floyd about how to best structure seed financing. In this conversation, Brian and Joe cover a number of topics including:
- What are the best ways to structure early stage seed financing?
What’s the difference between a convertible note and a SAFE, and when should a startup choose one or the other?
- For those companies that raise on convertible notes, how do you approach board structure and governance?
- What happens when people have outstanding notes and the fundraising environment turns? What are some lessons that entrepreneurs should know in those situations?
Aug 31, 2017
22 min
A monthly roundup of enterprise news, thoughts and updates from Emergence Capital. For more content, visit: playbook.emcap.com
Aug 30, 2017
28 min
A monthly roundup of enterprise news, thoughts and updates from Emergence Capital. For more content, visit: playbook.emcap.com
Aug 1, 2017
23 min
Emergence General Partner Kevin Spain sits down with Ian Shakil, CEO of Augmedix. Ian shares his story about founding the company and how they’re on a mission to rehumanize the doctor/patient interaction.
Aug 1, 2017
13 min
Rene Lacerte sits down with Brian Jacobs, General Partner at Emergence Capital to talk about how the idea for Bill.com came about, tips on hiring executives and the role of fitness and health within their company culture.
Jul 5, 2017
13 min