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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. “A startup could also give better deals to investors they expected to help them most&# – That is a quote from Paul on the “high resolution financing&# post.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Your product demo crushed. 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. But the real product being bought or sold is “trust.” You had an amazing meeting with an investor.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

Arlo and AJ had built a stunning new way of doing product discovery for soft goods. So far, almost every shopping website shows products either in an endless list of “Next Page” links (hint hint Amazon — you have so much room for improvement!), The lawsuit completely killed the financing prospects for Ugmode.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

I have to admit, the light bulb didn’t go off for me until I was negotiating term sheets. That’s a nice way of putting it. You can read more about this on Josh Kopelman’s post. Be sure to check out the links to Fred Wilson’s related post. Read more about deal math on Brad Feld’s blog.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.