Over the past six years, Jason Mendelson and I have heard from over 100 professors who have used our Term Sheet Series of blog posts in college (undergraduate and graduate) programs on on entrepreneurship. Jason and Brad Bernthal  have been teaching a class at CU Boulder Law School called VC 360. MORE >>

We’ve been flattered through the years to hear that several highly acclaimed universities have used our term sheet series to teach business, law and engineering students the ins and outs of the venture financing term sheet. Okay, we are biased, but take our word for it). MORE >>

Convertible Debt – Other Terms. If you want to see an actual convertible debt term sheet or the actual legal documents, take a look at the TechStars Open Sourced Model Seed Financing Documents. Last night I gave a talk hosted by SVB at their Palo Alto office. Several questions came up about Convertible Debt. MORE >>

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Rewind. These are very different. Who knows? MORE >>

  Based on the comments received, both on the blog and in the many deals in which these documents have been used, I am convinced that the terms of a simple set of equity documents are really not an issue.  In sum, Series Seed creates a level playing field between capped debt and equity documents in terms of speed and cost.  MORE >>