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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

The traditional NVCA term sheet works well for founders who are comfortable substituting VC capital for revenues, running typically at a loss for many years. Convertible notes , which typically look like the Cooley Series Seed Convertible Note Financing Package , YC SAFE Term Sheet , or similar.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Lower level of community familiarity. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If

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The VC Inclusion Clause #MovingForward

Both Sides of the Table

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. MovingForward is an open-source directory that pools diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment commitments from VCs.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0). Series Seed Term Sheet. Ted - I think if you simply remove the spaces in the file names, that should solve the download problems, e.g. the term sheet doc should be renamed to "SeriesSeedTermSheet.doc" Same with the others. :). Series Seed IRA.

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Model Series Seed Docs

The Startup Lawyer

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. 4) Term Sheet. The drafters, Fenwick & West and Andreessen Horowitz , imply these docs should be used for $500,000 to $1,500,000 investments.

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Model Series Seed Docs

The Startup Lawyer

The drafters are “open sourcing&# the documents so that they may be continually improved by the startup community. 4) Term Sheet. The drafters, Fenwick & West and Andreessen Horowitz , imply these docs should be used for $500,000 to $1,500,000 investments.

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. An effective lawyer will assist the client in thinking through more than just compensation and carry, and think about setting up the Partner for success in the long-term relationship formalized when the new partner finally signs.”.