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The End of Syndication

View from Seed

For early stage VC ‘s, Syndication is the process of sharing investments with other potential co-investors. The classic scenario is when a VC has a signed term sheet to lead a round, but has left room open for another meaningful investor. When I started in venture, syndicating deals was fairly common.

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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. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Friday Funism – Fear vs Greed

View from Seed

Is a Founder raising a new round well in advance of cash-out date because she sees an opportunity to put more gas in the tank ahead of what current underlying business metrics would suggest (i.e. One of the most relevant scenarios that this fear vs. greed lens applies towards is insider-led financings.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

I have confirmed with the founders that none of the information contained herein is deemed confidential and is therefore fair game for me to share in this post. The founders of the company — Arlo Faria and AJ Shankar — were PhD students in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. At this stage, the team had had no prior financing.

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When should you go for equity financing?

Berkonomics

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. If you have a virtual company with your employees working from home locations, as many startups do, it should be the location of the founder.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. A related topic is the standardization of terms. A good comparison of the various "standard" term sheets can be found at Start-up Company Lawyer.

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

I''m a strong believer in fairness (although my daughters may not agree) and investors and entrepreneurs working together as a team to create something valuable to all stakeholders (customers, employees, founders, investors). AngelList (which I remain a big fan) also recently launched a syndicate program.