Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. Consider: When GOAT started it was a restaurant reservation booking app called GrubWithUs … it’s now worth $3.7
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
If you’re wildly successful early on or if they help you achieve a great valuation they actually pay a significant price for their eventual stock even though they took much more risk than a future investor and backed you early. Less than you’ll probably grant your most junior employees in stock options? Stock Option plans.
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Gust
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
For a traditional VC financing round structured as a sale of preferred stock, the best resources I can recommend are the Term Sheet Series by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson and Startup Company Lawyer by Yokum Taku. (For more on working with startup lawyers, see Mark Suster’s classic post, How To Work With Lawyers At A Startup.).
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
“Overall, the NVCA term sheet is the standard starting point for companies that generate revenues and are ready for a Series A or later financing”, says Christopher Edwards of Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLC. Sample Series B Preferred Stock sample term sheets from: Kauffman Foundation and Carlton Fields Jorden Burt.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
If you’re wildly successful early on or if they help you achieve a great valuation they actually pay a significant price for their eventual stock even though they took much more risk than a future investor and backed you early. Less than you’ll probably grant your most junior employees in stock options? Stock Option plans.
K9 Ventures
MARCH 23, 2011
The convertible note was really intended as an instrument for a “bridge financing” – when an equity round was imminent, and likely to occur, but the company needed some money in between. In that case, it made good sense to have a debt instrument, where the note holder then converted into equity when the financing occurred.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2010
the loan converts at 15-20% discout to the new money coming in) or your investor will get “warrant coverage&# which is similar to an employee stock option in that it gives the investor the right but not the obligation to invest in your company in the future at a defined priced. This bonus is often in the form of either a discount (e.g.
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