www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes “First they ignore you. of the Series Seed Documents as well as a red-line showing the changes I’ve made from the original set. 

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. So to be clear, if a company owns 8% of your company but has negative blocking rights as outlined above in the NVCA guidelines, you are ineligible for the program unless you modify your legal governing documents.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Some specific defense related AI applications are listed later in this document. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Now open-source code libraries and developer tools allow organizations to use and build upon the work of external communities.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. « About the Series Seed Documents | Main. Series Seed Financing Documents. Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.    These are the original versions of the Series Seed Documents.  SeriesSeed.com. Blog Archives.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2014

And to find out whether a technology works or not, you do not even have to hire consultants – do your own research from publicly available documents and open forums to discover the pros and cons of a technology you are planning to implement. Freeware and Open source. Seek expert help.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

Choose from a broad range of 3D modeling software available, including a free open source software or an industrial-grade software (need to pay the license). PolyJet technology: PolyJet 3D printing is like inkjet document printing. That’s why a machine operator is not required. UV light is used to cure them.

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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). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Look at Docusign, as one shining example — a company many folks thought would be a $1-2B outcome for a feature (e-signatures) transformed into a $10B+ document management platform.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

A lot of the world of work is based around text: documents, email, content, media. Google Brain recently open-sourced Phenaki , a video diffusion model that points towards YouTube’s internal capabilities. And then, there are open source solutions like Stability.ai’s Stable Video Diffusion launched in November 2023.

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Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

We normally ask our students to contribute to open source to engage with communities and companies with distributed teams and workflows. Open Source. Getting started with open source is really easy! I know how hard it can be. We also ask them to engage with those companies and their employees on Twitter.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes.   That said, I think this quote accurately captures the life-cycle of creating a simple set of documents for early stage investment. Why use Series Seed Documents instead of capped convertible debt? 

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Stripe, Payoneer, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, DigiSigner, … Integration of Software Services: Open API. Secondly, as a business, you need to use a lot of different services to transfer payments, automate billing, sign electronic documents, create batches of payments, approve payments, etc. Job Publishing.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

The massive breadth and test coverage represented by this project has created an inordinate load on the servers Travis provides for free use by the open source community. If you would like to contribute to the project, we''ve migrated documentation to ReadTheDocs. Windows support has again fallen behind.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile). Administration.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2010

TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West). This might be a futile effort, which will prove the point that it’s impossible to create one standard set of documents.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To avoid these pitfalls, ensure your project scope includes the following: Clearly defined documentation: Building out user stories and acceptance criteria will help your team understand the value your solution must deliver to users. Get clear on the integration plan in your project scope and documentation. Integrations.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By then the open-source movement had really developed. We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

Wise has taken that interest in stories and created a new media project that will help me sure more of this founder lore is indeed documented. FounderLY launches today as an open source platform for entrepreneurs to share their stories through short form interviews. Open Source Storytelling.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

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

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In this article, I am going to document the process I went through to open source the code, and package it in a nuget package. I have a piece of code that enables ELMAH SQlErrorLog to pull the connection string from the app settings. I needed that in order to make use of AppHarbor’s configuration variables.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

These manufactured documents might help weed you out from the obvious “hell no” candidates, but do a poor job of communicating your capabilities. The open platform showcases candidates’ creations, free to inspect and critique. Can we all agree resumes are crummy? x 11 sheet of paper? Does anyone even read your resume anyway?

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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

I’ve been at LinkedIn for four months now, and this day gives me the perfect excuse to write a post about two things I love about this place: open source code and big data. Open source: I think LinkedIn has contributed some great open-source products to the world.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

Despite the amazing productivity gains from open source, AWS, microservices and other new technologies, we have seen the time to launch extending and the cost of getting a minimally viable product (MVP) out the door increasing. Go niche?—?pick pick a vertical, say old archaic tech and SaaS-ify it?—?my

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ycombinator.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Series AA Equity Financing Documents Y Combinator and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are happy toannounce the Series AA Equity Financing Documents. These documents were originally created for YC-funded startups to use whenraising angel rounds. They seem to have worked well in trial runsso far, so were open-sourcing them.

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Altgate

JANUARY 21, 2010

Open source is the wrong term though; instead is probably better to say automate since LegalZoom and others are doing the same thing but commercially. It’s silly to pay by the hour to have the same documents generated over and over. Another great example is a new tool I learned about today. Bookmark the permalink.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 23, 2022

By documenting the process used by the tester, it is possible to reproduce the results if necessary. By using a variety of techniques, the tester can be sure that all potential vulnerabilities have been identified. Additionally, the features of web application penetration testing can help to ensure that the results of the test are reliable.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. For modifications, please edit the original document here. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Another tip for safeguarding your intellectual property or trade secrets is to keep all forms, documents, manuscripts and other data containing your ideas in a safe storage area that is protected using an access-management and identity solution. Open-Source IP. This often hurts all parties involved.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We’re excited to announce our investment in Arweave , a decentralized platform that enables anyone to store documents and applications forever. . While there are other decentralized storage platforms out there, Arweave is offering something completely unique…permanent storage.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Currently, you work on one unit of material like a document, presentation or email at a time. As an open-source enthusiast, he developed the open-source Money Manager Ex personal finance software. Five key changes ahead will further redefine how enterprise organizations collaborate: Shift from Files to Contexts.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Ravn Systems automates the (repetitive, boring) review of documents in legal workloads; Bitproof’s Peter is an AI legal assistant that can request signatures, generate contracts and notarise documents; and Premonition.ai

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 27, 2017

We have a game design document and art guide in order to advance each of our works in a certain harmony with the visuals created by our own perspectives and approaches. Also, we would like to share some platforms that we currently share our project: Unity Connect, Quora and forums: Gamasutra, Indie Gamer, and Unity Forum.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Note that this is a debt instrument, whereas the two documents below are equity instruments. Take SparkToro, for example, which raised an unusual round of financing and open-sourced all their documents. You can see their Folder with All the Documents , including the: LLC Agreement. Indie.VC’s template term sheet.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Hardening documentation can be found online,” he said. Use free and open-source software. ModSecurity is a free, open-source Web application firewall,” said Maman. Hardening essentially means eliminating unnecessary software, restricting access and otherwise blocking everything that is not essential.

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