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Valuing Early Stage Equity: An Optimism-Weighted Approach
Valuing Early Stage Equity: An Optimism-Weighted Approach
How to think about the equity component of a startup job offer.
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Aug 27, 2020
Crypto rabbit-hole: the saga continues.
Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are my own and do not reflect the view of any third party. This is not a recommendation to buy or…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Jul 11, 2018
ETH bulls are doomsday preppers. Scenario analysis for high utility token value.
I recently re-read John Pfeffer’s excellent paper: An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets (the full paper is linked at the…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Apr 10, 2018
Cap Table Simulator
Cap Table Simulator
An interactive cap table simulator to help answer the eternal question: what will this financing do to my ownership?
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Mar 27, 2018
Building your own Deep Learning dream machine
Building your own Deep Learning dream machine
How to build your own Deep Learning dream machine: hardware, software, configurations, etc.
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Mar 18, 2018
Lessons of History: summary in bullets
Lessons of History: summary in bullets
Bullet point summary of the amazing “The Lessons of History” by Will and Ariel Durant.
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Mar 13, 2018
ICOs are charity fundraisers
ICOs are charity fundraisers
As US regulatory agencies weigh-in (FinCEN, CFTC, SEC), I propose ICOs are in fact charities
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Mar 7, 2018
Getting up to speed on crypto
Getting up to speed on crypto
A primer on what to read, watch, and who to follow to get up to speed on cryptoassets.
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Mar 6, 2018
The next chapter
After 4.5 years as Parsable’s CEO, I’m passing the baton. I’m excited to announce that Lawrence Whittle — formerly our Chief Revenue…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Aug 18, 2017
Negotiation Cheat Sheet
Negotiation Cheat Sheet
Back in October last year, I wrote about the most valuable book I read in 2016, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss.
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Jun 26, 2017
What jobs will be left for us humans? What I learned by challenging some industry experts.
On Tuesday, I was honored to lead two roundtable discussions for the Influencer Series on the topic of Fulfilling the Promise of Industrial…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
May 18, 2017
Digitization isn’t enough — Lessons from WEF
A few weeks ago the World Economic Forum invited some of the folks driving tech strategy in Oil & Gas to help workshop their Digital…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Nov 10, 2016
Read this book.
I thought I’d learned what I needed to know about negotiation. I went to a prestigious business school and took their negotiation class…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Oct 4, 2016
Thoughts on Entrepreneurship
It was a great honor to recently come back to my alma mater, Rice University, to give the opening keynote at the Rice Alliance for…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Sep 27, 2016
Culture: Drafting your team’s Constitution
Culture: Drafting your team’s Constitution
Culture matters — but why, and what does it even mean?
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Aug 30, 2016
Parsable Raises $20M from Global Industrial Firms to Eliminate Paper
Parsable Raises $20M from Global Industrial Firms to Eliminate Paper
I’m honored that Parsable has received an investment of $20 million from a consortium of the world’s largest industrial firms, including…
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich
Jun 21, 2016
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