www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. 09/02/2010.   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v. Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0). link and Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0) SeriesSeed.com.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. " 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Now I have.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

→ More on Liquidation Preferences Posted on December 16, 2010 by admin A long time ago I had asked a VC about what pre-money valuation he was planning to put in a term sheet he had promised to send over. One of the least understood of these key terms is the liquidation preference. One point to takeaway from [.]

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Altgate

AUGUST 20, 2010

-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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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? As of August 2010, Paul Graham famously proclaimed , “Convertible notes have won. ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” Convertible debt? Convertible equity?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” So how DOES a VC think about financings at early stages? So you can see why this leads to a lot of tension and misunderstanding. It’s very simple. For me it’s clear.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

Paul Graham sparked some commentary by declaring in a tweet in August 2010 that “Convertible notes have won. One major concern about convertible debt is that it eventually needs to be repaid if another round of financing doesn’t occur. Form of Convertible Security Term Sheet. Series A) or have to be repaid.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010. One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. A related topic is the standardization of terms. April 21, 2010 9:26 PM. ProfessorVC. Well, not exactly.I

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value of over $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth over $600 million. Chris Dixon posted about an ideal term sheet for first round funding, which started an blogosphere discussion about terms.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. 2) Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v. Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0)

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

He tells me the firm has made 21 investments since mid-2010, and Correlation now has more than $165 million under management. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

These documents include term sheets, investment documents and explanatory notes. TechStars – the Denver/NY based incubator in collaboration with Cooley, LLP , offers an equity financing structure and a debt one, drawing on its experience funding hundreds of startups. Link: [link]. page=1&userId=10881.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. This can make it much more difficult to get any bank financing, new investment, and trade credit. In cases where it is truly a bridge financing (i.e. Steve Bennet. at 1:33 PM.

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www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Matt Bartus — February 9, 2010. Let’s say you receive a term sheet for a $1 million investment at a $3 million fully diluted pre-money valuation, and you’re kind of disappointed. I just worked on a financing for a company that received a term sheet from a group of VCs at a $7 million pre-money valuation.

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The Startup Lawyer

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve drafted and/or reviewed several financing docs in 2010, but the most valuable work product I’ve dispensed to startups this year are actually sentences such as: That option grant is fine, provided we vest his shares. Burn the term sheet unless they delete that provision. That’s f ing crazy.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 5, 2012

My clients put together a nice amount of seed and venture financings in 2011. In fact, she even let me revise a term sheet in maternity triage about 45 minutes before delivery. However, the stats for this blog were up (259k visits in 2011 compared to 163k visits in 2010). Wow, 2011 was a busy year.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2015

The entity getting screwed on this term are the founders, who now have a greater liquidation preference hanging over their heads than the dollars invested by the angels. We’ve been regularly running into another problem with doing a financing after companies have raised convertible notes.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations → Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales? Posted on August 16, 2010 by fnazeeri They teach everything else. I’m not suggesting that sales is a pure science anymore than, say, finance is. King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations → Comments are closed.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. & Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.]

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet. Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Dan Primack joined Fortune.com in September 2010 to cover deals and dealmakers, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road. Term Sheet. Finance jobs. Fear & Greed.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2010

but they get no meetings, no term sheets. In fact, just a few weeks ago, on April 22, 2010, one of our clients, Click Forensics, Inc. raised another $6 million in venture financing, for a total funding of $15 million. Most entrepreneurs "blast" their business plans to hundreds or thousands of VC firms. and no funding.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. There will be one to three issues that are potentially problematic for your financing — address them head on. What will their concerns be?

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

In April 2011, just prior to the Linked In, Pandora, and RenRen IPO’s, Fred Wilson reaffirmed his belief on his blog that we were not in a bubble in this sector: “I n all the posts over the past year or so outlining my thoughts on the financing and valuation environment in the internet sector, I’ve avoided using the word Bubble.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

In November 2010 we launched Whatser : an application that made it easy to get personal suggestions on where to go such as bars, restaurants, galleries, shops and other spots based on your location, interest and social graph. Make sure you check and understand the term sheet and overall deal. Most start-ups fail.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. We do that primarily through leading financings. That scares me. On Balancing Optimism and Improbability.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Startup Company Lawyer

JANUARY 9, 2011

I started writing this post in September 2010, but only got around to finishing it.). Convertible debt with a price cap seems to be the preferred structure for early-stage financings. Paul Graham has sparked some discussion on the topic in August 2010 when he tweeted “Convertible notes have won.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news. venturebeat ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news. venturebeat ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news. venturebeat ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news. venturebeat ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Later that evening you review the term sheet from Blue Shirt. Reading on, the term sheet states, “The $8 million pre-money valuation includes an option pool equal to 20% of the post-financing fully diluted capitalization.&# That does work if the company gets sold before another round of financing.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

I have to admit, the light bulb didn’t go off for me until I was negotiating term sheets. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks). Read up on the “unwritten terms&# in term sheets having to do with exit multiples here For bootstrappers, the math is even easier: 100% of the upside goes to you and your awesome team.

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www.quicksprout.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Home About Answers Contact Quick Sprout What I Learned About Entrepreneurship Through 15 Angel Investments by Neil Patel on October 28, 2010 Share Share Over the last 2.5 Reply Pradeep Kumar Singh October 28, 2010 at 7:32 AM Who could write this better then you? Reply Neil Patel October 31, 2010 at 8:49 PM Thanks Pradeep!

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

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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