mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Look for Your Lead Investor. First you’ll want to find a lead investor — someone many other investors will recognize and respect. This list of top angel investors is a good start. Open Source Lists. I use a service like Tout to manage my email templates for quickly replies. Jobs Lists.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. We launched an initial prototype, landed a few customers, and brought in Mission Ventures as a new lead investor for the restart of the company. Tags: Entrepreneurship Open Source.

Portfolio 109

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. We launched an initial prototype, landed a few customers, and brought in Mission Ventures as a new lead investor for the restart of the company. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Architecture Open Source Database 109

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

First off, I think this is a great idea and a great service to both entrepreneurs and investors to effectively "open source" a robust set of very basic preferred financing docs. One issue I do have with the term sheet though is the provision for $10K in investor legal expenses. That would be my suggestion.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. They don’t mind being the lead investor on deals that they seeded. My very first seed deal was a company that told me flat out that they didn’t want to raise more than $500k. We offered them more : $750k-1 million. We took the $500k.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I think I took the first two or three meetings with Fred's lead investor, which is pretty funny. Eric Ries : So, what was the investor reaction like? Eric Ries : Have you or has the City of LA open sourced this playbook of what are the complementary pieces that have to get done to make a lab like this effective?

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