Ubiquity University

Sunil Nagaraj discusses the big mindset shift you need to make as you approach your first board meeting, as well as the role of a board, optimal frequency of meetings, and common mistakes and solutions.

Sunil Nagaraj walks through how to approach your first board meeting deck and what specific areas to cover.

In this session, Ivan Gaviria of Gunderson Dettmer takes us through the 5 main legal documents behind a standard VC financing (SPA, Charter, IRA, Voting, and ROFR/Co-Sale) -- discussing the philosophy as well as watchouts.

In this session, Sunil Nagaraj explains how startup cap tables work. He starts with a blank Excel sheet and builds up a new startup's capitalization table ("cap table"). It begins with 2 co-founders with an initial option pool, then we model in a pre-seed

Ubiquity Extended Team member Amol Kapoor begins this Intro to AI Series with an explanation of 3 foundational concepts of machine learning: features, embeddings, and losses.

In this session, Ubiquity Extended Team member Natalya Bailey shares her lessons from life as a founder/CEO of a deeptech startup (Accion Systems). She dives into the nuances of making deeptech problem solving work with traditional venture capital.

Matt Brown discusses ways you can cut your burn rate quickly, how to think about immediate vs. longer term targets, and three primary expense categories where cuts may make sense.

Sunil talks about the investigative approach of the "entrepreneur as scientist" in charting early customer development and searching for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Sunil Nagaraj talks through a simple but practical financial model appropriate for pre-seed or seed-stage startups that are at the pre-revenue, early pilot, or early revenue stage.

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Ubiquity Extended Team member Bethanye Blount discusses setting your startup's compensation philosophy, compensation for remote vs. in-person teammates, the concept of "leveling" and where to find compensation figures.

Ubiquity Extended Team member Bethanye Blount discusses setting your startup's compensation philosophy, compensation for remote vs. in-person teammates, the concept of "leveling" and where to find compensation figures.

Ubiquity Extended Team member Nathan Ackerman shares his view on how product and engineering leaders can better manage the product development process by not rushing to development and instead focusing on requirements definition upfront.