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Venture Deals

Startup Lessons Learned

And reading a term sheet has all the entertainment value of watching dried paint get even drier. For example, the right way to think about a term sheet is as a negotiation over just two things: economics and control. Everything in a term sheet is negotiable - if and only if you already have sufficient leverage. (Do

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Top Ten Posts in 2011

Scott Edward Walker

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