Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

They’ve recently open sourced the syllabus and we’ve put up a page on AsktheVC for anyone teaching a course using Venture Deals. If you are looking for ideas on a course about entrepreneurial finance, take a look. Jason and Brad Bernthal have been teaching a class at CU Boulder Law School called VC 360.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2010

Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West). However, until there is one standardized set of documents that everyone – especially the various law firms agree on – I don’t expect there to really be a standardized set of seed financing documents.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

My friends at Standing Cloud have closed another $3 million financing from us ( Foundry Group ) and Avalon Ventures. They’ve also added a long time friend, co-investor, and amazing entrepreneur Will Herman to the board. Standing Cloud is a great example how one of our funding strategies plays out.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2011

As a result, we created a Resources page on Ask the VC and decided to load it up with legal documents that are part of a venture capital financing. As a step in the right direction, Jason and I decided to open source our Foundry Group form legal documents. You can find them on the Ask the VC Resources page.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

If you want to see an actual convertible debt term sheet or the actual legal documents, take a look at the TechStars Open Sourced Model Seed Financing Documents. If you feel like we missed anything, or got anything wrong, or were confusing in our explanation, please chime in on the comments on the post.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Standing Cloud , which makes it easy to deploy and run apps in the cloud, recently closed a $ 3m financing led by Rich Levandov at Avalon Ventures. There are a huge number of solution providers out in the world who are specialists in any of the more than 70 open-source apps that Standing Cloud supports.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

OccamRobotics , founded by a serial entrepreneur who came to Boulder from the bay area, is working on low-cost, autonomous pallet trucks that build up on recent breakthroughs in robotic algorithms, availability of open-source tools , and novel sensors.

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