Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 31, 2020
All of these areas require real understanding of core underlying technology, not just pattern matching against a business model applied to a vertical. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist (Feld; Mendelson) is the best book to read if you want to understand venture capital, term sheets, etc.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
She’s already a seasoned pro—three term sheets got signed in her room at the NICU where she spent the first 80 days of her life. In other words, there’s still lots of work left to do here and the lights will stay on until the last investment wraps up. No new investments. No more responding to fundraising decks. Consider this.
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VC Cafe
MAY 18, 2022
For many investors it’s not business as usual – and term sheets are getting pulled (normally a big no-no). I’ve seen more term sheets pulled in the last month than in the last decade. Round sizes will likely get smaller in the short term. Multiples by vertical. Down rounds are coming. Just sayin.
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.”
Haystack
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
But Gade’s and Paka’s vision wasn’t simply to leverage AI for a vertical application. My old friend Krishna Gade and his new co-founder, Amit Paka, were teaming up to build a new startup in one of the most exciting technology spaces out there today — artificial intelligence.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
& 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 [.] Reply Raising capital - The 50 or so things you should read first | JonBischke.com , on November 9, 2009 at 10:59 am Said: [.] &
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria. We make fast, data-driven credit decisions for these types of businesses and show Founders how the math/ROI works. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”.
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