Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 27, 2012
Based on my experience, and the book “ Attracting Capital from Angels ” by Brian Hill and Dee Powers, here are some key clauses that any investors expect on the first term sheet for the investment you need: Set the price. The price is the percent of ownership given to the investor, calculated as “investment/post-money valuation.”
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
According to Attracting Capital from Angels by Brian Hill and Dee Powers, here are some key clauses that angel investors expect on the first term sheet for the investment you need: Set the price. The price is the percent of ownership given to the investor, calculated as “investment/post-money valuation.” Seat on the board.
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Gust
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Based on my experience, and the book “ Attracting Capital from Angels ” by Brian Hill and Dee Powers, here are some key clauses that any investors expect on the first term sheet for the investment you need: Set the price. The price is the percent of ownership given to the investor, calculated as “investment/post-money valuation.”
Gust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor. Gust is used by over 1,000 angel investment groups, accelerators, business plan competitions and support programs to manage their applications.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 29, 2011
Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 14, 2015
The term sheet converts all the convertible debt into a post-money valuation of $100, essentially making the convertible debt worthless. The new money comes in at a pre-money valuation of $100, but includes a complete refresh of founder equity to 40% of the company. So they recapitalize the company.
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