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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Santa Clara University shares their demand dividend structure. . Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If Emily Campbell, Esq.

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. on demand billing and fraud management. WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. Login System.

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When to Bring Up Valuation

ithacaVC

Seriously, pre-money valuation is a function of many things (team strength, size of market, IP, hotness of sector, etc.) So, my suggestion is to not bring up pre-money valuation unless (i) asked by the VC or (ii) the relationship has matured to a point where you can sense that a term sheet is likely.