Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
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.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? They’ll help you ensure that any money you raise doesn’t come with surprise terms that are hidden in legalese.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. IP Location Tools. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library.
Scalable Startup
MARCH 7, 2012
Investor groups are cutting out the management, bus dev, sales, and marketing professionals, trying to get raw, young engineering teams that have never negotiated a term sheet to give away their IP rights and equity for next to nothing. Some of these projects will produce amazing companies. I call it harvesting youth.
Gust
JULY 3, 2012
Copyright is not the only type of IP right implicated — and others such as rights of privacy and publicity become increasingly relevant in the age of social media — but it provides many of the most accessible examples.
www.currentlyobsessed.com
MAY 28, 2010
I have to admit, the light bulb didn’t go off for me until I was negotiating term sheets. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks). Read up on the “unwritten terms&# in term sheets having to do with exit multiples here For bootstrappers, the math is even easier: 100% of the upside goes to you and your awesome team.
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