Feld Thoughts

JULY 18, 2011

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. After I wrote Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup with David Cohen (the CEO of TechStars ), Jason and I decided to write Venture Deals.

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Altgate

AUGUST 20, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales? A couple of years ago I wrote this post on the science and art of negotiating a term sheet , which turned out to be a fairly popular post.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Where Do Tech VCs Invest? One of the least understood of these key terms is the liquidation preference. Bookmark the permalink. One point to takeaway from [.]

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Altgate

JANUARY 5, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Layoffs In Venture Capital Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur! ← Layoffs In Venture Capital Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur! Tips: $75 Killver VC Pitch Deck Not much to learn here.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. Maybe I should be writing that into my term sheets from now on: "If this crazy thing works, you have to invest in the next fund after you exit.".

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Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

His company is doing well and recently received a couple of term sheets for his first institutional round. But it’s not so far fetched though that layoffs will soon be coming to venture capital. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged layoffs , startup , venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

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. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I believe this is wrong. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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Altgate

MARCH 17, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Global Nuances of Startup Compensation Obama Shoots Down 90% Tax Bracket → Popular Posts Posted on March 17, 2009 by fnazeeri Once again, here is a list of some of the more popular posts on this blog.

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Altgate

JANUARY 21, 2010

Open source is the wrong term though; instead is probably better to say automate since LegalZoom and others are doing the same thing but commercially. I think this is great for end users both personal and professional, but I think it is going to seriously erode legal industry revenue in the long term.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. At this time, we had secured a term sheet from a co-investor from one of my other angel investments (Thanks, Graeme!) offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005. Steve Bennet. at 1:41 PM.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Who is this Julian Assange guy anyway? King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations → Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales? A “Rich-vs.-King&# Bookmark the permalink. A “Rich-vs.-King&#

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When I pulled out the May 30, 2005 issue with Real Estate Gold Rush on the cover and posting the question "Inside the hot-money work of housing speculators, condo-flippers, and get-rich-quick schemers. The current valuation of $2B is 3,000X the proposed post-money valuation of that seed term sheet. Is it too late to get in?"

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. If they see you when you’ve already got your first term sheet and they’ve got 3 weeks to decide then by definition they have no relationship with you. So why would raising venture capital be any different.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Over the long term, we anticipated that the answer would be subscriptions, but we didn’t know how long it would take to get there. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings. And Greylock knew I had gotten a term sheet to accelerate their decision process.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. Venture Capital Funds VC firms are like seed firms in that theyre actual companies, butthey invest other peoples money, and much larger amounts of it.VC One experienced CFO said: The better ones usually will not give a term sheet unless they really want to do a deal.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. You’ll see a Term Sheet, Stock Purchase Agreement, Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, Investors’ Rights Agreement, Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement and a Voting Agreement. Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 So Skype was ubiquitous.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks).

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Board of directors , cash bonus , Chief financial officer , Chief operating officer , Chief science officer , Chief technical officer , equity compensation , executive compensation , Israel , startup salary , UK , venture capital.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator.  Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator." "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? National Venture Capital Association â?? WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â??

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