Cofounder Due Diligence IP Term Sheet 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
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BeyondVC
OCTOBER 13, 2004
I was speaking with a friend of mine today who mentioned that his term sheet for his Series A round fell through. To make a long story short, one of the co-founders of the company built the company’s software in his spare time. Today, the IP is about to get assigned in the proper manner.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 6 weeks’ later he didn’t have other term sheets.
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MARCH 11, 2013
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