Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. The assistant tried to end the meeting twice but was shoooshed away. What do I do now?
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. At the end of the process, which ran into the fall of 2003, we received term sheets from two firms and had a third which expressed interest in participating though not leading the round. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
We just finished the second year in Boston. The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. Is that when it became big? And how has it worked out? “It It has worked out great. So we had probably had well this is the fourth year we’ve done it in Boulder.
View from Seed
APRIL 30, 2015
Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. In terms of negotiation, there are always hot buttons. Investors have typically seen our term sheets and documents before, and the startup’s lawyers have seen these too, so everyone knows the standard and what to expect.
Gust
DECEMBER 21, 2011
Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement. This is not to say that there is no competition for deals in Seattle, Boston, New York and elsewhere.)
View from Seed
AUGUST 17, 2021
I was speaking to the former CFO of one of our most valuable portfolio companies the other day, and she recounted how this company once pitched 70 investors to barely get a term sheet. Perhaps we are nearing the end and in for a world of hurt in the coming years.
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