Continuations

This is the first post in an occasional series on negotiating. Imagine yourself in a situation where a clear bid and ask have been established on an important and potentially contentious deal point (e.g. vesting of founders shares). Now the other side proposes a compromise. The best strategy here is to listen to the compromise proposal but not react to it immediately unless you are 120% certain that the compromise works for you. Why? Because agreeing to a compromise and then coming back with ...

This blog is titled Continuations because I did not want to call it Closures. If that makes absolutely no sense to you, then some of my geekier posts may not either. You may still want to stick around though because I plan to write about many different things, including venture capital, sailing, skiing, politics, movies and whatever else comes to mind. At some point in the future–when tumblr has this as a feature–I am planning to provide RSS feeds by category.