David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr.
Startup Company Lawyer
MARCH 14, 2010
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). Anti-dilution protection. Future rights. Self-explanatory. Board seat.
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www.seriesseed.com
DECEMBER 9, 2012
I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance. A question I have is why is there no anti-dilution protection for the investor?
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2010
So if a VC wants to work with really talented early-stage entrepreneurs there are times where they have to be willing to seed fund them in order to be in the deal. They said that they didn’t want the extra money or dilution. We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. We took the $500k.
rapidrollout.wordpress.com
JANUARY 15, 2011
By deciding to use a consulting CTO on a temporary basis, you avoid getting stalled in the earliest stages. And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner.
K9 Ventures
MARCH 23, 2011
The founders’ interest is to maximize the valuation of the company at the time of a follow-on financing, thereby minimizing founder dilution. In the early stages of the company the Board of Directors need not be about “control”, but it does need to be about learning and about discipline. Where are you going?
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