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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. This is probably the most important piece of advice I can offer.

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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. But perhaps the biggest reward is when using a connection results in something very unexpected. Here is an example (and I am keeping names fictitious as this deal is not done yet).

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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. 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 million … yes that was seed in 1999!)

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

& 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 [.] Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor?

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

David Teten

The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation.