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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

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. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. The assistant tried to end the meeting twice but was shoooshed away. What do I do now?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

Ability to Pivot – I don’t like to invest in people that I’ve never met before who come through my office wanting to have a term sheet within 30 days. Yes, there is the mythical company you all heard about that walked into Sequoia and had a term sheet 24 hours later. I’m sure that happens.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.

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The Startup Checklist for High-Growth, Scalable Businesses

Up and Running

He’s perhaps best known for having founded Gust —a website that connects startups with investors—but he’s also been instrumental in a number of other ventures, including Space Angels Network, Singularity University, New York Angels, and Rose Tech Ventures.

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What are some key points to look for when reviewing an investment offer in your startup?

Gust

Once you’ve settled on the investor, only then should you worry about the terms of the investment. A term sheet is not necessarily rocket science, and with enough time and effort can be understood by anyone. So start now, and help yourself by getting up to speed on what all the parts of a term sheet mean.

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There Is Only ONE Silicon Valley

Gust

Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If That said, John Berger observes, “I can easily make a low-risk, debt-like Flexible VC deal, or a high-risk equity-like deal, and I can do it using the same term sheet with different terms.