Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. We got to term sheet a bit quicker, but from start to the close was basically June to Nov 2003.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. Many term sheets ensued.

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