Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. and walked through each proposed term and why it is or isn’t important.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. At the end of the process, which ran into the fall of 2003, we received term sheets from two firms and had a third which expressed interest in participating though not leading the round. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M
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The Startup Lawyer
AUGUST 24, 2010
Just like the preferred equity financing process, the convertible debt financing process can start with a term sheet, rather than a full set of financing documents. It also makes any potential back-and-forth on terms easier to manage. Tags: Convertible Notes convertible note Term Sheet. 2X/3X, etc.)
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2015
In the old days VCs funded off of a “pre-money” valuation. If you add the pre-money valuation (let’s say $8 million) to the amount of money you’re raising (let’s say $2 million) you get the post-money valuation. For me it’s clear.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.
ithacaVC
JANUARY 14, 2014
I was giving some advice the other day on how to approach Series B investors in terms of valuation. Company X raised its Series A at a pre-money valuation of $5mm and it raised $4mm dollars. So the post-money valuation after the Series A was $9mm. Dealing with VCs Management Startup Life'
ithacaVC
APRIL 25, 2012
If you want to scare off VCs, start your pitch with “we are looking to raise $X at a pre-money valuation of $Y” Stating how much you want to raise is fine and recommended. However, stating a desired pre-money valuation early in the process is not a good idea. Here is why.
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