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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Long-term alignment : Many Flexible VCs retain a small residual stake in the company after the return cap is reached, driving alignment well beyond the horizon of the revenue share, similar to the long-term orientation of equity VC. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.    Series Seed COI (v 2.0). Series Seed IRA (v 2.0). Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0).   These are the original versions of the Series Seed Documents.    Series Seed COI.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Once a price cap has been introduced, however, Series Seed Documents are a better solution to getting the first round complete for both entrepreneurs and investors.    Redlines Redline - Series Seed COI (1 v. 2) Redline - Series Seed IRA (1 v. 2) Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

As such, you should make sure to think of the proposals as an investor and get a reasonable term sheet. If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. Recent Posts.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.