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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Finally, they need to validate intellectual property protections and status.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Finally, they need to validate intellectual property protections and status.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Gust

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Finally, they need to validate intellectual property protections and status.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Investors typically negotiate from a term sheet, which if not handled properly can create problems that can hurt or kill the startup’s chances when they do their Series A round of funding. ” Intellectual Property. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs.

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Startup Valuations Revisited

ithacaVC

Assign real value to intellectual property. I was a little surprised that his list did not include the following: Demand for your deal, measured by the number of term sheets you have obtained. His post on startup valuations lists the following rules of thumb (i.e., All principals and employees add value.

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

www.mattbartus.com

Intellectual Property. Term Sheets. What are the potential issues? Is there a Jewish network in the Silicon Valley startup scene? Categories. Angel Investors. Employment. Negotiating. People issues. This and that. Venture Capital. Copyright © 2011 Matthew S. Bartus | Disclaimer.

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