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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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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. When I’m in, I’m in.

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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. If high U.S. However, the U.S.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. They’ll help you ensure that any money you raise doesn’t come with surprise terms that are hidden in legalese. That’s why I love VentureHacks.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If That said, John Berger observes, “I can easily make a low-risk, debt-like Flexible VC deal, or a high-risk equity-like deal, and I can do it using the same term sheet with different terms.

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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!), or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it.

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Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?

Gust

When presented with a product or service in development, we often have to admit that there is no clear precedent and look for the best analogous situation to assess legal risk. Is Instapaper like collecting press clippings? Rose likes Gust.