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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

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Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low. Quick note: I’m not your lawyer.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing.

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"  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.  Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive.  Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator. .

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?

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Update From ADPrentice

Feld Thoughts

In 2005, I wrote a post titled ADPrentice that talked about a weekend event I did with a number of the undergraduates in my MIT fraternity (ADP). In the post I described the entrepreneurship education event I helped put on with Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners – then at Sequoia Capital) and Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures).

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Viridus Launches Green Business News.

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So to solve my own problem (and thinking others might have the same one) we created a green business news aggregator, Viridus News. Keeping all the news organized and being able to categorize and go back and search has been a pain (I have 100+ RSS feeds pertaining to green business) and probably a dozen or two daily emails.

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