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Searching For VC Term Sheets Prior To 1990

Feld Thoughts

On the heels of all the noise around Groupon’s $ 100m financing at a $7.5b (billion) post valuation, I thought I’d put out a call for “old VC term sheets – prior to 1990.&#. My partner Jason Mendelson and I are working on a book titled Venture Financings: How To Look Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big?

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Writing about SPACs

Feld Thoughts

When Jason and I wrote the first edition Venture Deals in 2011, we built off a series of 30+ blog posts we wrote in 2005 about Term Sheets. It’s fun to explore them for historical reference since Jack Bauer plays a major part in the posts. us) and the entrepreneur, who did a few of these over her lifetime.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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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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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

The book originated in 2005 when Jason and I wrote a long series of posts on this blog about a typical Venture Capital term sheet. We knew the term sheet series would only be a small part of the book and would have to be re-written, so we just got to work. Overview of the Term Sheet.

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A "Rich-vs.-King" Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations

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-King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations Posted on August 20, 2010 by fnazeeri I feel like I’m in that scene from The Jerk where Steve Martin sees his name in the phone book and exclaims, “I’m somebody!&# I’m published (sorta)! Bookmark the permalink. ← Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales?

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Crowdsourcing The Title of My Next Book

Feld Thoughts

The project started as an extension of our Term Sheet series and Letter of Intent series that we wrote on this blog in 2005 and 2006. It’s evolved into a much broader book covering financings, acquisitions, how VC firms work, and a bunch of other random things we think are important to entrepreneurs.