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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.
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    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…
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    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…
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    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?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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…
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    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.
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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?
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    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…
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    Jun 21, 2016
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