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More "Open Source" Legal Tools

Altgate

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. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Management , Startups , Technology and tagged legal , open source , Privacy Policy , Terms of Service , website.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of Series A financing terms.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions. Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea. That was the year Twitter took off.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. We signed the term sheet within 48 hours and had funded in under 2 weeks. If you accept my terms you’re done. They elected to sign my term sheet. We offered them more : $750k-1 million. We took the $500k. Cash in bank in 30 days.

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

Altgate

 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. "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.