YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2015
This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Convertible Securities.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. Not a bad close rate, I'd say--and a pretty great pay day.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 1, 2010
They either do too many seed investments (for which they can spend no quality time with any) or they treat it as an option (“if you succeed come back and see us and we’ll match any term sheet you get&# ) – they view it as a sort of “right of first refusal.&#. The signaling affect is overrated.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
Having been through the company-building process myself and after a decade in VC working with thousands of companies and negotiating hundreds of term sheets, I wrote this book to help demystify the process. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 14, 2015
A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. Here’s the scenario.
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