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Venture Capital Demystified: A Fundraising Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Lawyers

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If you end up with more investor demand than you can handle, you can always raise a larger amount of money. If a VC offers you a term sheet, expect their lawyers to ask you for more information like capitalization tables, contracts, material agreements, employment agreements, and board meeting minutes.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. Steve Seitz.

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On the Road to Recap:

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In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. Next came Rolfe Winkler’s deep dive “ Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence. ”

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