Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy. Sales and marketing strategy.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more. AngelList will then automatically generate a term sheet and closing documents. Advertise Here. Advertise Here.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v. Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0). These documents have been prepared for informational purposes and is not intended to (a) constitute legal advice (b) create an attorney-client relationship (c) be advertising or a solicitation of any type.    Redlines.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0). Series Seed Term Sheet. These documents have been prepared for informational purposes and is not intended to (a) constitute legal advice (b) create an attorney-client relationship (c) be advertising or a solicitation of any type.    Series Seed COI.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

2) Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v. Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0) These documents have been prepared for informational purposes and is not intended to (a) constitute legal advice (b) create an attorney-client relationship (c) be advertising or a solicitation of any type. 

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

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. By the time we got around to building our Marketing Solutions business, we had a different concept of advertising than InLeads. We only used inLeads as a brand in this deck.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Advertise Advertise. Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use. We spent six months fundraising only to walk away once we had a term sheet in hand because we realized we were making enough money to sustain and grow the business on our own terms. About Us Jobs Advertise Subscribe Privacy Terms.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Investor groups are cutting out the management, bus dev, sales, and marketing professionals, trying to get raw, young engineering teams that have never negotiated a term sheet to give away their IP rights and equity for next to nothing. Many investors now advertise that want only developers, they will cover all business/marketing/etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. Within 48 hours of meeting him we had a term sheet agreeing to fund $1.6 When I was an entrepreneur I had a term sheet with True Ventures (my second company) and thought highly of them.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 8, 2017

Google recently advertised for a sales manager for Bebop, the startup founded by Ms. Most of them also have pretty sizable budgets as well. The byproduct of all of this is saving money but that is not what moves the needle. There are signs Ms.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions? I think actually actively selling your stuff is very important for a startup these days.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investor, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Instead of scrutinizing gigabytes of information about a prospective deal, Coats says Correlation gets the information it needs from five documents—the business plan or power point presentation, term sheet, historical financial, capitalization table, and pertinent legal documents. “We Xconomy on Demand. Did you miss something?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. The term sheets of good corporate investors reflect the venture capital industry standards and don’t require special treatment like first right of refusal in case of a sale or operating agreements with their parent company’s divisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

They either do too many seed investments (for which they can spend no quality time with any) or they treat it as an option (“if you succeed come back and see us and we’ll match any term sheet you get&# ) – they view it as a sort of “right of first refusal.&#. The signaling affect is overrated.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

On an app advertised to "meet inspiring people" for meaningful networking, someone tells this black founder, whose last name is "Youngblood" that is name is inappropriate. I offered a term sheet to lead a $1.6mm financing. [Ducks head.] Ok, let's dive in. There is discrimination in the world. This should surprise no one.

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www.quicksprout.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Although I have made a decent amount of investments, I don’t consider myself an “angel investor” because I don’t search for companies to invest in, I don’t lead financing rounds, and I don’t know how to read term sheets.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

More advertisers will feel comfortable spending money on it. Don’t let someone who could give you a term sheet scare you into thinking that de-platforming violence and hate is censorship. First off, it’s the morally right thing to do, if you care about, you know, people, society, etc., and the idea of “do no harm”.

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