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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

The easiest way to do so is via SAFE notes, due to their simplicity, “available online” documentation, no major covenants established to protect the investors, no governance implications at the board level, etc. All of these items are postponed until the elusive priced equity round. It’s going to be great!”.

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Liquidity for Venture Backed Companies Still Comes Largely in One Flavor—Cash Acquisitions

Pascal's View

It is critical to know the state of the art in merger terms leading to an acquisition and in post-merger covenants, particularly with respect to the release of cash consideration held in escrow or as a holdback by the buyer.

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Don't forget to look at venture debt when raising a new round

BeyondVC

We all know the story – it is incredibly cheaper to start a web-based business versus 5 years ago with the rise of open source software and commodity servers. The interest in web-based businesses is there and the competitive market means that pricing and terms are pretty attractive now.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

The same goes for "non-competes" or non- solicitation covenants. but there are plenty of folk who talk as well or better than I (see last weeks Web 2.0 But I would say that presenting an NDA is not amateurish; sometimes a business person is required by investors or primes to do so. zuccaro.joe. | May 8, 2010 7:55 AM.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Ive amassed a personal collection of source information over the past 15 years, this summary mainly includes information that you can readily find on the Web. As I noted, almost all the documents cited here are available on the Web. Prosperity Covenant , Tom Walker. The History. Appendix: Collected Sources.