YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

As an entrepreneur, your goal when raising financing is to get several term sheets — the documents describing the terms and conditions of financing. And it never hurts to engage at a personal level via a social media platform. More important, it shows us that you can build something and then show it off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

If all this checking sounds a bit paranoid and unnecessary, it may be time to take another look at some questionable investor practices and onerous term sheet requests. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

For the elite startups and entrepreneurs who manage to attract the investor they dream of, and survive the term sheet negotiation, there is still one more hurdle before the money is in the bank. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The term sheets tend to be fairly standardized and straightforward as well. Term sheets are littered with many more obscure protective provisions and onerous terms.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2014

We’re also being more specific about what our term sheet would look like from a size and valuation perspective, potentially even proactively generating something to show the entrepreneur we’re serious. And I love talking about Homebrew’s values and investments.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Social media is one of the biggest examples of this, inverting and transforming how information flows. The last decade has seen both the explosion of new information and huge changes in how information moves around the world.

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View from Seed

MARCH 12, 2015

And of course, many individual VCs blog or have social media presences, so you can get a sense of what a particular partner is interested in or what themes they’ve concentrated on. This step is usually at the very end of a process, when you have a term sheet from a VC firm and are deciding whether you want to proceed.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

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! Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Find people to help you through the raising money process.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ question in venture capital.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Social Media (10). Term Sheets (1). Launchpad LA (2). Non Tech (1). Pitching VCs (35). Raising Venture Capital (12). Random (1). Sales & Marketing Advice (2). SoCal Stuff (4). Startup Advice (157). Tech Market Analysis (30). This Week in Venture Capital (14). VC Industry (16).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

Through peers, social media or connections, make every effort to meet one or more of the investors before the actual pitch. I would recommend a budget of at least $10,000 to prepare documents for pitching, legal fees for term sheets and contracts, travel expenses and assistance fees.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

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! Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Find people to help you through the raising money process.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had 6 term sheets in no time. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Use social media to be sure people are aware of it. We were it in Europe: B2B. We appeared in a prominent article in the Financial Times. We closed a $16.5 million A round.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

W hen sharing your life on social media becomes a bit much - an Israeli soldier revealed security sensitive information and cancelled a planned raid. Open-source term sheets, certificate of incorporations and more posted on Series Seed , a site created by by Marc Andreessen, First Round Capital and Fenwick & West attorney Ted Wang.

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Gust

JULY 3, 2012

Copyright is not the only type of IP right implicated — and others such as rights of privacy and publicity become increasingly relevant in the age of social media — but it provides many of the most accessible examples. Let’s use Pinterest as a case study.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.” I use social media. Even though I know this sucks when you’re an entrepreneur and just want the money deposited tomorrow so you can get back to running your businesses. Shame on you.

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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. So true, so true, and that's the perspective you must adopt to become adroit in social media."

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2011

If you're going to bother having a social media presence, you can't just let customer complaints go unchecked. My buddy Dan Primack has a private equity newsletter called the Term Sheet that is now getting caught in Gmail's spam filter as well. At least it's not only me, though.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

Just don’t do reference checks ever until the term sheet has been issued and you’re almost ready to fund. Blog but be careful what and how much There are plenty of VCs whose blogs and social media posts I enjoy. Your fund isn’t likely to collapse next year, his or her startup probably feels like it might.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

. - 500 Hats , July 30, 2010 Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 1 - Ash Maurya , February 16, 2010 How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups (..)

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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. Mendelson: Why Social Media Is B t [TCTV].

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Social Media. Social Media. When we launched The Muse , the result was the opposite — nearly 25% of the people who visited our site shared it with someone else via social media!" — Kathryn Minshew , Founder/CEO, The Muse. About Us Jobs Advertise Subscribe Privacy Terms. Follow @mashable.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The company has generated excellent investor interest and multiple term sheets. In parallel, he is also building a product business that has emerged out of his work with social media campaigns. Wealth Gathering.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? Don’t let someone who could give you a term sheet scare you into thinking that de-platforming violence and hate is censorship.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Seed Term Sheet. code spaces (svn).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2017

Shouldn’t you just talk about term sheets and funding?” Some people like Hunter Walk have written less about it on blogs but has been hugely active in social media and in taking part actively and I appreciate Hunter so much. We should take him literally. But wait, Mark, you’re a VC — why are you suddenly political?

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