Feld Thoughts
JULY 18, 2011
The book originated in 2005 when Jason and I wrote a long series of posts on this blog about a typical Venture Capital term sheet. After I wrote Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup with David Cohen (the CEO of TechStars ), Jason and I decided to write Venture Deals. Overview of the Term Sheet.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 2, 2010
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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Feld Thoughts
MAY 7, 2012
And even though a term sheet might be four to eight pages long and the definitive documents might be 100 pages or more, other than economics, there are really only three things a VC needs in a deal. Up: Pro-rata rights. As I was writing this up, I remembered that Fred Wilson had a post about this a while ago.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2013
Some are major contributors to their startup communities. As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 1, 2015
On Saturday, I polished off Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook. I started it last weekend at the tail end of my Weekend Reading on Startup Communities but four books weren’t in me so I didn’t finish it. It was excellent and is now on my “all startup CEOs must read” list.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 6, 2010
As many of you know, the issue is not only the term sheet, but also the underlying documents supporting the deal. So, while a simple term sheet might be able to be agreed on, I realized that getting the actual docs agreed on would be a miserable, and likely impossible, thing to try to deal with.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 5, 2012
Jason and I got an email this morning that said the following: Hi Jason and Brad, Just wanted to thank you for writing the book ‘Venture Deals’ The advice in the book seriously helped my startup get a great term sheet on the table on Friday. We get an email like this often. “Thank you for helping me.”
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