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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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Examples of good startup term sheets

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Venture Capital Venture Capital Term Sheets Startups Term Sheets What are examples of good startup term sheets? Ycombinator open source term sheet is a good start for Seed deals. Brad Feld does the best blog term sheet series.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. This is wrong.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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A checklist for your funding announcement

Version One Ventures

Too often, we see the opportunity to capture this mindshare lost because the focus is too much on the financing itself. Assets: high resolution logos, headshots, demo videos, etc. Fortune Term Sheet. Prepare a press kit. You may want to share your own blog post (see #1) to provide more context. Pick your timing.

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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

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Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. By September 26th we had submitted a term sheet which was signed on October 4th and financing was closed in less than 30 days.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). They are releasing their first commercial product in Q4.”…” So you will see the instantiation of this first in video conferencing at the higher end. Or, as always, summary notes available below.