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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.&#. The basis for the book comes from the Term Sheet series that Jason and I wrote on this blog in 2005.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. I’ve been writing privately about it a lot but have now crossed over into a zone where I feel like writing more publicly about it.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. At the end of the process, which ran into the fall of 2003, we received term sheets from two firms and had a third which expressed interest in participating though not leading the round. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M Congrats!

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. Many term sheets ensued. I had that against the backdrop of several term sheets. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

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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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.