Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” My initial blogging inspiration was actually Brad Feld because as an entrepreneur I always wanted to work with Brad after reading his advice on term sheets and the like.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Use the 10-5-3-1 formula for raising money: Have 10 great meetings with investors, 5 of those do detailed due diligience on your company, get 3 term sheets, and 1 transfer into your bank account! website ): PITCH 2010 Finalists (Mobile Track) Pitch Live on November 4, 2010 @ 3:15pm.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

We signed a term sheet with Ben for Change Collective’s round shortly before the holidays and he did a great job bringing in our friends at Founder Collective as a co-lead and Eniac Ventures and a small set of angels in a short time. This was historically static content delivered via books, DVDs, podcasts, blogs, etc.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Use the 10-5-3-1 formula for raising money: Have 10 great meetings with investors, 5 of those do detailed due diligience on your company, get 3 term sheets, and 1 transfer into your bank account! website ): PITCH 2010 Finalists (Mobile Track) Pitch Live on November 4, 2010 @ 3:15pm.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

There has been a lot of discussion and publishing of standard term sheets, including Y Combinator, TechStars and SeriesSeed. A good comparison of the various "standard" term sheets can be found at Start-up Company Lawyer. Marios firm, Wilson, Sonsini, even has a term sheet generator on their site.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

We had them a term sheet the same week. They have designed a digital, mobile product that engages parents and kids. Turns out Punky was a childhood hero for Tasha. That’s cute. They pitched on a Wednesday. I had them at my partners’ meeting the next Monday. We signed it the following week. That happens, right?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

“I would far rather give out my mobile phone number than my email address.” I submitted a term sheet to a company yesterday. Yesterday I offered him a term sheet. It now seems totally acceptable to email random people direct to their email boxes whether you know them or not.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

Perfecto Mobile Handset Cloud service now on Sony Ericsson - According to Forrester Research, testing is the fastest growing segment of the applications outsourcing industry. Israeli start up Perfecto Mobile is well-positioned to capture the value from the growing number of applications with its Handset Cloud service for mobile app testing.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2014

Their ultimate goal was a native mobile app but they’d built a proof of concept on web (with some light mobile web responsiveness). It was pretty nice but neither of them had sufficient native mobile app development experience (they were smart and likely could have learned, but that’s additional investment risk). Sounds great.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

View More in Mobile ›. Instead of scrutinizing gigabytes of information about a prospective deal, Coats says Correlation gets the information it needs from five documents—the business plan or power point presentation, term sheet, historical financial, capitalization table, and pertinent legal documents. “We Life Sciences ›.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. Mari Holds a B.A.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

And, if there are no revenues for your business – unless you are a biotech business waiting for FDA approval or some new mobile app grabbing immediate market share before others for examples – raising funds for your business, at any valuation, will be very difficult. Revenue multiples for established businesses are typically in the 0.5x-1x

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 1, 2011

As a result, they were able to get multiple competitive term sheets and negotiate both valuation and terms to their advantage with confidence. Also notable is the "affordable SaaS" opportunity, exemplified by Zoho and Freshdesk, that Indian entrepreneurs are zeroing in on. This is your opportunity.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

From my experience, negotiating debt deals with an experienced investor will result in a number of the same terms and wont save much (if anything) on legal fees. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. 5 hours ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile social networking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 When we funded our two seed deals we used the Y Combinator Open Source Term Sheet and were highly entrepreneur friendly. The contra is also true.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Entrepreneurs can sink a lot of time into fundraising discussions that go nowhere or end with actual term sheets but ones they’re not prepared to accept (firms you don’t want to work with, terms you don’t like, etc). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

At this time, we had secured a term sheet from a co-investor from one of my other angel investments (Thanks, Graeme!) The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. MBA Mondays: Guest Post From Donna White. 5 hours ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

Within 48 hours of meeting him we had a term sheet agreeing to fund $1.6 When I was an entrepreneur I had a term sheet with True Ventures (my second company) and thought highly of them. Let’s be honest – the majority of images are still snapped and left stranded on mobile devices. I still do.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. 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.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 26, 2012

That’s generally not something you can discover in a few days while you are evaluating several term sheets.” - Sean Dalton (p. 173) SCOTT SANDELL, General Partner at NEA “In my experience, you learn most everything you need to know about somebody by negotiating a term sheet with them. .” - Sean Dalton (p.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The funding search began the day after Labor Day and continued throughout the fall as the environment continued to worsen, and resulted in a term sheet the day before Thanksgiving. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

We were doing an educational session on term sheets. I had expect a Q&A style session and as I asked the first question – BOOM – he went straight to screen sharing using his term sheet write-ups on VentureHacks. The voice was more clear than my mobile phone. And we had full screen video.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2013

The major knock on WordPress is that it feels more like a CMS system than a beautiful, simple publishing platform, and that their mobile software still lags. Tumblr – Obviously great mobile product, simple toolset and upside of re-distribution ease via dashboard. That’s important to me.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

I have to admit, the light bulb didn’t go off for me until I was negotiating term sheets. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks). Read up on the “unwritten terms&# in term sheets having to do with exit multiples here For bootstrappers, the math is even easier: 100% of the upside goes to you and your awesome team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Six firms had expressed strong interest, two had strong champions already trying to test price and round size and one had made it clear they were planning to submit a term sheet the following week. We still had such strong inbound interest we decided to stay the course and would surely be done by November.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator." "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups. "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more. AngelList will then automatically generate a term sheet and closing documents. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras.

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management.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 7, 2012

MORE: How to create a mobile-friendly workplace. Term Sheet. For example, Google ( GOOG ) evolved from a search company to an all-encompassing platform company, and Coach ( COH ) went from making handbags to offering consumers a complete lifestyle solution. Howd you recover? Newsletters. Today in Tech. Get the Fortune app.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The growth was incredible; we rode the wave with the PayPal brand and the different products we’d built as consumers shifted from cash to mobile payments. In fact the term sheet was signed the day before the world went into lockdown! Digitization really accelerated with products like PayPal, Venmo, Square Cash and Revolut.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Simple editing. signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The company has generated excellent investor interest and multiple term sheets. Ashok Jagathrakshakan, from Bangalore, India, presented Azuyo , a mobile and social application developer.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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