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

David Teten

The idea is for us to take advantage of a cost/expense that our borrowers are already incurring (credit card fees) and structure an investment that truly aligns our interests. Feenix focuses solely on providing longer term growth capital to healthy companies looking to expand.

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are a million ways to do quick, easy, low-cost rounds with prices. But founders these days seem strangely unfocused on finance and on terms that could hurt them even though we fought to the death about these same terms 10 years ago. My colleague: Whoa. Is there ever a situation where a convertible note is a good idea?

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part I

Gust

Given that convertible debt financing has become the de facto standard for small (<$1MM), early stage deals in recent years, I thought I would write a primer on the elements of a term sheet and definitive documents for entrepreneurs looking at the earliest stage financing rounds. Let’s take it from the top: Why convertible notes?

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Startups and VCs Should Avoid “Pier” Funding

Both Sides of the Table

The industry jargon for convertible debt is a “bridge loan&# or “bridge financing.&# It’s called a bridge loan because it’s meant to provide enough capital to bridge you from your last round of funding until your next round of funding.

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Bad Notes on VC

Gust

There are a million ways to do quick, easy, low-cost rounds with prices. But founders these days seem strangely unfocused on finance and on terms that could hurt them even though we fought to the death about these same terms 10 years ago. My colleague: Whoa. Is there ever a situation where a convertible note is a good idea?

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Thoughts on Convertible Notes

K9 Ventures

The convertible note was really intended as an instrument for a “bridge financing” – when an equity round was imminent, and likely to occur, but the company needed some money in between. In that case, it made good sense to have a debt instrument, where the note holder then converted into equity when the financing occurred.

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Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

www.copelandfirm.com

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