ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2020

Venture capital investment is one of the top places startups look out for when seeking funding for their business alongside other popular options like angel investing and crowdfunding. Therefore, startups can expect investors to make significant adjustments based on lessons learned last year, which are rather harsh.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Perhaps they're way off in their valuation (usually far too high), or paralyzed by fear at seeing the other terms, because they have no idea what's normal, and what's worth a fight to the death (their startup's). In very early startups, which have no valuation, the term sheet may specify a convertible note.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 14, 2016

When a VC invests in a startup, the two parties usually sign a term sheet that lays out the major terms of the investment round. 90%+ of term sheets result in a closed deal that is more or less equivalent to what was discussed. In the M&A process, an LOI feels an awful lot like a term sheet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2021

As an angel investor to startups, I’m still surprised to find entrepreneurs who expect investors to give them money, and assume no strings attached. Angel and venture capital money always comes with ownership and management implications, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal.

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Term Sheet Advisory Board Liquidation Preference Startup 433

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges. Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers.

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Cofounder Startup Term Sheet Acquisition 389

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2021

My job as an early stage investor includes translation services, specifically helping startup founders take what they are hearing from potential investors and providing a read on whether that VC is actually ready to make an offer. Whether it’s a hiring manager holding some candidates at bay while they continue interviewing.

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Term Sheet Due Diligence Reputation Early Stage 151

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Many myths surround the subject of startup funding. Here is Startup Funding, a Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs. You must have seen a lot of startups giving out promotions, discounts, and incentives at the early phase of their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. Some startups do nothing to prepare for the due diligence process, assuming the people and business plan documents will speak for themselves.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 242

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

For the elite startups and entrepreneurs who manage to attract the investor they dream of, and survive the term sheet negotiation, there is still one more hurdle before the money is in the bank. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 120

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. Either would be fine with startups, so long as they can easily change their valuation. When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me.

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Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing. Many investment banks even call themselves “boutiques.” Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. Some startups do nothing to prepare for the due diligence process, assuming the people and business plan documents will speak for themselves.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Startup 245

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

There’s been a lot of digital ink spilled around the various types of capital available to startups today. As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston.

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Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

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. Q: “If you have a term sheet on the table how should you leverage with other VCs?&#

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. This is similar to something we did at Austin Ventures to encourage startups to make a donation to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

However, many industry experts question the accuracy of early-stage market data, given many startups are no longer filing their Form Ds. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

The only real benefit of their having this information is in preparation for a term sheet. ” Heading into a Term Sheet – Final Due Diligence. Obviously once a partner seems inclined to work on a term sheet you can expect a proctology exam and this gets even more intrusive after the term sheet.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Cap Table 316

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

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. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Product or service readiness.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 237

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

To outside investors, the future of early stage and startup companies can be murky. Due to new accounting standards effective for December 2016 year-ends, the future timeline that management must consider for cash flow needs has expanded to one year from the issuance date of the audited financials. What Management Should Consider.

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San Francisco Forecast Early Stage Term Sheet 133

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M Reid assembled the founding team drawing largely from his prior startups, with a few other folks he’d known for a long time. May 26, 2011.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“My startup business was acquired and I worked for the company that bought us; which was a public company called Ameridata that bought about 40 companies in about three years. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. On the Startup Visa Program. investors.”

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

So here’s a five-day playbook to help CEOs of cash-flow negative startups, or ones about to go negative, assess the new normal and respond with speed and urgency. For companies burning cash, such as startups, how much cash do you have? For startups: source of VC money? Some VC’s are walking away from signed term sheets.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 333

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They’re “playing startup” as opposed to actually building a company. It’s easy… If the very first thing you did after coming up with your idea was make a pitch deck for fundraising, versus trying to sell or test customers on it, you’re probably playing startup, not building a company. How do you know which is which?

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Startup Term Sheet Differentiation Cofounder 145

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing. Many investment banks even call themselves “boutiques.” Commercial banking is also known as business banking.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Term Sheet 362

The Startup Lawyer

AUGUST 24, 2010

Just like the preferred equity financing process, the convertible debt financing process can start with a term sheet, rather than a full set of financing documents. It also makes any potential back-and-forth on terms easier to manage. Term : When is the maturity date of the convertible notes? 2X/3X, etc.)

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Term Sheet Pre-Money Valuation Liquidity Event Warrant 62

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. Folksonomy.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Gust

MAY 22, 2012

We have a standard term sheet as a starting point. We’ve never seen that term sheet survive negotiations all the way through signing, but it’s usually a good start. This year we started with more than 30 submissions from startups. We like the local connection. .

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Technical Review Oregon Due Diligence Term Sheet 111

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Their only option is to work with management to try to fix the problems.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Every town has firms that focus on startups – find them.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Startups and investors discover each other, and the community wins because the event becomes visible evidence of new business and new jobs locally. Or the in-kind winning includes legal work or management consulting, but the startup that wins has its own providers. But before the term sheet is signed, problems come up.

Software Review 79

Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Angel Investor 79

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Because the hundreds of millions that it takes to greenlight a theatrical film could never be absorbed by a startup and because they way we experience media & characters has evolved dramatically over the past 20 years to a point where the starting point for media is often digital, gaming or even graphic novel oriented. The results?

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Technical Review North America Los Angeles Cofounder 373

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges. Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers.

Entrepreneur 307

Entrepreneur Cofounder Term Sheet Acquisition 307

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion.

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Tim Keane

MAY 16, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. A philosophy of valuations and term-sheets. Several months ago, I'd posted an article about term-sheets.  Several months ago, I'd posted an article about term-sheets.  Posted at 05:03 PM in Funding startups | Permalink.

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Term Sheet Valuation Wisconsin Angel Investor 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

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. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Product or service readiness.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Are you working on a startup? In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Some startups are destined for failure. Whats This? By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111