Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s also why Jason co-teaches the venture capital course at CU Boulder. So when the founders of Hotshot , a startup that provides digital learning for lawyers, asked if they could come to Boulder and interview Jason and me for a video on raising venture capital, we happily obliged.

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Early Growth Financial Services

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

What is a term sheet, and why should you care about it? Questions about term sheets? Ask in comments below, or contact Early Growth Financial Services for help understanding your term sheet, and other financial support. Check out my quick overview.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

if you don't have experience with venture debt you might want to listen to this bit in the video - we talked a lot about how it works]. He met with 8 companies and got 6 term sheets, decided to take General Atlantic deal and that’s when Experian came back to buy the whole thing. He told them it was now or never.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

It is essential to understand the funding structure stated in your term sheet and the advantages and disadvantages it may have for your business. Under this category, you have the angel investors who would invest their own money and Venture Capital or VC firms, who manage funds aimed towards specific startup sectors and stages.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. There were no explanations for all of the confusing details outlined in a term sheet. He gave me the human explanation for what the term meant. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Drag along rights? I never did.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital ( @jrichlive ) on Twitter: Caption this: pic.twitter.com/EoOHzVKhYh — Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 7, 2020. In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon. The VC firm delivered a term sheet for an 8-digit second round that afternoon. Here’s how they did it. And learn from it.”

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Browse through the many hundreds of video answers to startup questions that we’ve filmed from the world’s leading VCs and angels. Luminaries contributing to the Gust video library include Dave McClure , David Hornik , Esther Dyson , Howard L Morgan , Josh Kopelman , Mark Suster and many others.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. Maker Studios, leading YouTube producer, generating hundreds of millions of video views every month [Los Angeles, near Culver City]. Think about venture capital. We need to be different & unique. Not derivative.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you’re an entrepreneur who wants to raise capital and grow your business, this online course teaches you the basics you need to know for working with VCs. And, if you are starting off as a VC or a lawyer for venture capital deals and you want a refresher on the core issues in a term sheet, this online course is for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Not so in venture capital. But what about once you have a term sheet? If you’re so inclined click on that link and launch this video while you’re reading the rest of this post. You’re tied at the hip to your VC.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea. Less than 100 days into joining FRC after winding down my startup, I offered my friend Rob the first term sheet I ever sent out--to lead the seed round of the company I accidentally inspired with a Tweet.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 13, 2013

This is because even with all their relevant experience, the average venture capital firm will lose money on half the companies they invest in and only break even on a third. So, the first criteria when seeking venture capital is that you can offer the potential of a 10X return to them. This video explains more.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. Only, I didn''t spot a hot deal any more than anyone makes a viral video. Videos don''t start out viral. Venture Capital & Technology' Not hot at all.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

A venture capital firm is a financial institution that focuses on providing capital, in the form of equity, to companies who offer them the prospects of significant growth. The partners and associates at venture capital firms are known as venture capitalists. This video explains more. read more.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Reply How to close a term sheet quickly - Venture Hacks , on April 28, 2009 at 10:43 am Said: [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

The Mobile application allows users to choose among several optional timeslots, and decide whether they wish to arrange a face-to-face meeting, phone call, audio conference, textual chat, web conference or video conference. billion in the US to create new jobs – what is the impact on the venture capital industry?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. We had 6 term sheets in no time. Record it with video.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2012

I am ecstatic to announce the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --my new seed investment fund. It is the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn--the city’s most exciting and creative borough. I’m looking forward to continuing the dialogue about Brooklyn Bridge Ventures and furthering our community together.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet. Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Term Sheet.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. The funding search began the day after Labor Day and continued throughout the fall as the environment continued to worsen, and resulted in a term sheet the day before Thanksgiving. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.” I create videos. The second is not.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

I see too many founders that are willing to do all of their meetings as phone calls or video-conference pitches. Or ask anybody who has had a VC pull a term sheet for whatever reason. The best sales people never give up and they are politely persistent in finding new ways to get in front of target buyers. That’s fantasy land.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Skype and Zoom are useful for video/audio conferences. you can see the video here.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I spoke about the topic on Fox Business News yesterday in a great session with TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon and will post it along with my other VC Videos when Fox puts it on their website. We don’t have a term sheet yet but seem close. This post covers the day after. The Day After (the waiting game begins).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

If you were expecting angel or venture funding get on the phone to your investor(s). Some VC’s are walking away from signed term sheets. The CFO should be on the phone to sources of additional capital. Personalized Video Entertainment – VOD, AVOD, Short Form Social Sites, Twitch, etc.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Reply Raising capital - The 50 or so things you should read first | JonBischke.com , on November 9, 2009 at 10:59 am Said: [.] & & Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. Still, “call high&# if you can.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. If they see you when you’ve already got your first term sheet and they’ve got 3 weeks to decide then by definition they have no relationship with you. So why would raising venture capital be any different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. Within 48 hours of meeting him we had a term sheet agreeing to fund $1.6 My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective. Pose is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I hadn’t used Skype video too much in the past year and hadn’t noticed this feature. We were doing an educational session on term sheets.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2022

venture capital and private equity) the VC index (by Refinitiv) shows a nearly 40% decline. While Q1 2022 looked normal, in venture, there’s a lagging effect in pricing, and deals that get announced in Q1 and even early Q2 2022 might have been signed in Q4 2021. Source: Pitchbook NVCA Venture Monitor. Just sayin.

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www.gabrielweinberg.com

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I recently raised venture capital for the first time. These numbers do not include firms or people that I never actually connected with on the phone, on Skype video or in person. I realize most companies can't get multiple term sheets. And historically I've been bad at doing serial posts, so here you go.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0 You can watch a video on this subject to understand more about what VCs do and don’t fund, and why.]. After all, there are many more $5M, $10M, $20M ideas out there than $500M or billion dollar ones.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0 The company has generated excellent investor interest and multiple term sheets. on a global scale. But the opportunity is a lot larger, especially by introducing Web 3.0,

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