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Selecting Your Investors

OnlyOnce

Here are a few tips for ending up with the best long-term partner as an investor. Look for VC portfolios that have a lot of “like” companies (B2B, B2C, media, tech, etc.). And this is true of any negotiation, not just a term sheet. Boards Entrepreneurship Startup CEO Venture Capitalists Fred Wilson'

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Two investment deals are on the table. Which do you sign?

The Startup Toolkit

You’re facing two term sheets and have boiled them down to the most relevant facts, listed below. Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The financials immediately jump out when we talk about term sheets: what’s the valuation? Which do you choose? 1.25mm total. Requires team relocation.

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Two investment deals are on the table. Which do you sign?

The Startup Toolkit

You’re facing two term sheets and have boiled them down to the most relevant facts, listed below. Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The financials immediately jump out when we talk about term sheets: what’s the valuation? Which do you choose? 1.25mm total. Requires team relocation.

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Importance of Connections – The Unexpected Outcome

ithacaVC

Our fund recently gave a term sheet to a company in what I would call the technology enabled B2C retail space. Dealing with VCs Management Startup Life' But perhaps the biggest reward is when using a connection results in something very unexpected.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. We had 6 term sheets in no time. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5

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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. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. For more on gathering data and using it to assess companies, see How to Assess Startups Using Machine Learning. 2) Market .