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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Ben Yoskovitz gets to a similar point In Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees : The more that those first employees feel like founders in terms of their ownership, emotional attachment, responsibility and overall understanding of the startup process (including financing, running day-to-day activities, etc.)

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

Each of these is aimed at effectively providing earlier, smaller financing rounds. At the same time, I tend to agree that there's a need for smaller financing rounds for very early stage companies that lines up with what RWW is talking about. I don't really agree that $100K is the new $1M.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth.

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JULY 13, 2010

How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. Will you negotiate million dollars rounds of financing with cool VCs? Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference. For the foreseeable future.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Converts versus equity deals - Chris Dixon , August 31, 2010 There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts).

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Finance, IT, Legal). New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. The Game, Let Us Live. So what gives? Are all these smart people out of their minds? Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM?

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