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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. The Valuation Question.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? Can it scale?”

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

Thursday, April 1, 2010. It had a good mix of viewpoints with east ( James Geshwiler, Common Angels ) and west coast (yours truly) angels, early stage venture capitalist ( Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group ), and a couple of attorneys ( Dan Hansen and Mario Rosati ). April 21, 2010 9:26 PM. ▼ 2010. (7).

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. The general rule is one business model drives the business. As it happened, we did end up pursuing all three lines of business.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents â?? WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? www.g2i.org.