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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software. We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. We signed the term sheet within 48 hours and had funded in under 2 weeks. If you accept my terms you’re done. They elected to sign my term sheet.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.