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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. No hidden terms.

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Examples of good startup term sheets

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Venture Capital Venture Capital Term Sheets Startups Term Sheets What are examples of good startup term sheets? Ycombinator open source term sheet is a good start for Seed deals. Brad Feld does the best blog term sheet series.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. This is wrong.

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The Economics of Term Sheets

Ben's Blog

a16z Managing Parter Scott Kupor’s new book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road , is a guide to engaging with and understanding VC that covers everything from terminology and term sheets to the fundraising process, governance, and more. In this video, …

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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On the former I mentioned a video that I shot for This Week in VC talking about how Farb Nivi solved this problem: “Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company.

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Startup 101: What goes in a startup data room

VC Cafe

SAFE note), shareholder agreements, company formation and governance documents (e.g. articles of incorporation, bylaws, shareholder agreements), employment contracts, patents and trademarks, contracts with providers, SEC filings, licenses Business documents – client contracts, pipeline (can be redacted: i.e

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

The traditional NVCA term sheet works well for founders who are comfortable substituting VC capital for revenues, running typically at a loss for many years. Convertible notes , which typically look like the Cooley Series Seed Convertible Note Financing Package , YC SAFE Term Sheet , or similar.

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