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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If Early liquidity.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. At least in the consumer & business web.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of Series A financing terms.

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. – Tax distributions. , “Roughly half the funds [surveyed]—particularly smaller funds, healthcare funds and non-California funds—require a unanimous vote of the partners. Finally, 15% of the funds require a majority vote. “.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation. Some technology vendors are providing options to limit distribution of confidential information from GP reports. 11) Exit .

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The Why of Where I Write

Hunter Walker

Under Matt, Toni and Raanan’s leadership they’ve been consistent and committed to their values – open source, distributed workforce. Tumblr – Obviously great mobile product, simple toolset and upside of re-distribution ease via dashboard. That’s important to me.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source).