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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

But analyzing data will go beyond capital gains and be used to create smarter policies for those in need, as noted in Gartner Group’s “Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021.”. Sajan has held several senior management positions in the software industry. According to research by Beroe, Inc., billion by 2022.

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. Quick note: I’m not your lawyer. I’m not giving legal advice in this post. From the data we collected, there was relatively little variance between company stage or time to last financing and 409A discount to common.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

The advent of cloud computing, open source software, platforms with APIs, and numerous other changes have lowered the cost of launching a new enterprise. A typical venture capital investment package consists of five documents: two certificates, a legal opinion and two consents, and is roughly 100 pages long (excluding signature pages).

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