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

David Teten

Feenix focuses solely on providing longer term growth capital to healthy companies looking to expand. The idea is for us to take advantage of a cost/expense that our borrowers are already incurring (credit card fees) and structure an investment that truly aligns our interests. All term sheets are a negotiation.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. This causes the cost of capital for Flexible VC, often calculated through IRR (similar to an interest rate), can be higher than that of venture debt or traditional RBI. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0). Series Seed Term Sheet. All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. Choose "Open With" and able to save as Word doc. Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.  Thanks in advance!

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

  With Series Seed: ·    Costs should be roughly the same (if not cheaper) than using industry standard debt documents.  In sum, Series Seed creates a level playing field between capped debt and equity documents in terms of speed and cost.  Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of Series A financing terms.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. So they set up seed programs that allowed for rapid decisions for $500k or less, often done as convertible debt for both speed and cost reasons.