David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

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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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So And it’s that combination with a long-term view. Is that when it became big?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2020

According to Ben Narasin , “in 2020, investors will require firmer governance and oversight structures to safeguard against negative impact and ensure these protections are mandated in their term sheets.”. One of the fundamental conditions for picking a startup is that they have a stellar management team.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup Term Sheet 175

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

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

Living and working in the SF Bay Area, I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded by people who are incredibly generous with their time and knowledge…Volley offers the chance to open this Silicon Valley dynamic to community after community after community.”. We led the Volley pre-Seed round.

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Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley Stealth Term Sheet 151

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach? Deviant Art, led by Angelo Sotira, which is one of the largest online communities on the Internet [Hollywood]. That seems very Brad to me.

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Some other ‘birds of a feather’ community you’ve cultivated. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist (Feld; Mendelson) is the best book to read if you want to understand venture capital, term sheets, etc. The school you went to. The company you’re currently working at. Notes and More.

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North Carolina Hiring Angel Investor Technical Review 91

Gust

MAY 22, 2012

We have a standard term sheet as a starting point. We’ve never seen that term sheet survive negotiations all the way through signing, but it’s usually a good start. We like the local connection. . We try to make our investments as convertible debt. More importantly, is this a good way to spend time and money?

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Oregon Due Diligence Term Sheet 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2023

Angels will likely agree to simpler term sheets, better valuations, and less restrictive terms on potential dilution, voting rights, exit options, and executive roles. How good are your connections in the investor community? How big is your startup opportunity?

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Angel Investor IRR Venture Capital Valuation 246

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

Silicon Valley 378

Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

She’s already a seasoned pro—three term sheets got signed in her room at the NICU where she spent the first 80 days of her life. I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund.

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Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It’s often more all about fearing how tough VCs are going to be with their term sheets and ‘standard’ clauses. Generous is not a word often associated with talking about negotiations between startup entrepreneurs and their investors. As well as how to work with pre and post-money valuations. Generosity is nowhere on their radar.

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Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur Cofounder Post-Money Valuation 127

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. The company is about to introduce the N8 to a mostly indifferent community. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Startups and investors discover each other, and the community wins because the event becomes visible evidence of new business and new jobs locally. Angel investment events where the group investment is supposed to go to the winner, but the winner ends up hating the term sheet. The event generates local buzz.

Software Review 79

Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Angel Investor 79

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program? He met with 8 companies and got 6 term sheets, decided to take General Atlantic deal and that’s when Experian came back to buy the whole thing. He told them it was now or never.

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Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2020

Angels will likely agree to simpler term sheets, better valuations, and less restrictive terms on potential dilution, voting rights, exit options, and executive roles. How good are your connections in the investor community? How big is your startup opportunity?

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Angel Investor Entrepreneur IRR Valuation 314

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Lower level of community familiarity. Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

The core idea is that startups will pledge to take a few concrete measures in the way they operate their company that should, over time, increase the number of minorities, women and people who identify as LGBTQ in the startup community.

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Austin Angel Investor Startup Term Sheet 54

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. The term sheets tend to be fairly standardized and straightforward as well. Term sheets are littered with many more obscure protective provisions and onerous terms. Unfortunately, none of it happens this way in Asia.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Morrill likes to feature content from around the startup community that might not get significant traction otherwise, but not just any piece of content can make it into the newsletter. Featured posts in CrunchBase Daily , StrictlyVC , and Dan Primack’s Term Sheet
. Nuzzel.com
. Venturenews.co
. Nuzzel.com.

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Curation RSS Term Sheet Technical Review 120

Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. The Valley has been a unique place for over half a century.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Tucson Seattle 107

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2012

If the term sheet process turns to pure torture, it may be time to respectfully bow out. Even then, do your own due diligence in the business community. Also, make sure your lawyer writes the initial investment document or term sheet - not the investor. Litigious angels.

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Angel Investor Term Sheet Entrepreneur Due Diligence 281

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

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. Thank you to Hamet Watt for being such a positive leader in the African American community?—?I

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Term Sheet Los Angeles Open Source Portfolio 284

Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 22, 2009

Always looking for ways to better serve the entrepreneurial community, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to announce the release of the WSGR Term Sheet Generator , a publicly available online tool that allows entrepreneurs and investors to generate an initial draft of a term sheet for a preferred stock financing.

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Term Sheet Finance Preferred Stock Kentucky 39

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

We’re dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech community and making Capital Factory an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. On October 4th, five technology startup finalists will pitch to a panel of advisors and judges made up of successful investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.

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San Antonio Dallas Houston Founder 107

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We’re dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech community and making our community an inclusive and welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds and identities.

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Founder Dallas Houston Term Sheet 98

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

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Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2013

If the term sheet process turns to pure torture, it may be time to respectfully bow out. Even then, do your own due diligence in the business community. Also, make sure your lawyer writes the initial investment document or term sheet - not the investor. Not all shark angels are on the Shark Tank TV show.

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Angel Investor Term Sheet Due Diligence Early Stage 263

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

One just got a seed term sheet for twice the valuation I put in at in the pre-seed and the other is doing $200k/month in revenue. I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. It has been an absolute joy.

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LP Technical Review Software Review Valuation 136

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. International and non-Valley startup communities are developing at a rapid pace. Not a bad close rate, I'd say--and a pretty great pay day. Did I mention it only took the founder a month?

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Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

And between the free and premium programs, as well as the blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, we have a community of more than 200,000 people engaged in the initiative at various levels. The company has generated excellent investor interest and multiple term sheets.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We’re dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech community and making our coworking space an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. We’ve had the pleasure of working with DivInc in the past on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenges in Austin , Houston , and Dallas.

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Houston Dallas Term Sheet Texas 84

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We’re dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech community and making our coworking space an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. We’ve had the pleasure of working with DivInc in the past on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenges in Austin , Houston , and Dallas.

Houston 84

Houston Dallas Term Sheet Texas 84

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

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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Finance Term Sheet Vesting LLC 40

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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Ukraine Russia Cap Table New York City 128

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

When the Airbnb founders walked me through their model, how the hosts were also guests, how their community was developing, and what they’d learned from different markets like Barcelona and New York, it showed me that they were on top of Airbnb’s key business challenge, which is to build powerful marketplace dynamics. I think David’s wrong.”.

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