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The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents

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Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR). I wrote about this in my post The Challenge of The Ideal First Round Term Sheet. Then we’ll open source these and evangelize them across the startup world, at least in the US. Tags: financing seed documents Term Sheet.

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Teaching Entrepreneurial Finance Using Venture Deals

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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.

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Ask the VC Bonus Material

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As a step in the right direction, Jason and I decided to open source our Foundry Group form legal documents. Included are our standard forms for the following: Series A Term Sheet. You can find them on the Ask the VC Resources page. Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement. Investor Rights Agreement.

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How Convertible Debt Works

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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. If you feel like we missed anything, or got anything wrong, or were confusing in our explanation, please chime in on the comments on the post.