Many of the VC Bloggers are talking about macro economic chaos and the impact on startups. We’ll highlight a few of them today. First up is Nic Brisbourne (DFJ Esprit) weighing in from the UK where, in addition to a falling stock market, there is fire in the streets. His post, Keep going through the […]
There is another type of term sheet that is important in an entrepreneur’s life—the letter of intent (LOI). Hopefully, one day you’ll receive one from a potential acquirer that will lead to fame, riches, and happiness. Or at least you’ll get a new business card on heavier card stock. Typically the first formal step by […]
As we enter the home stretch of the book, we spend some time talking about financings at different stages of the life of a company. Not all financings are created equal. This is especially true when you factor in the different stages that your company will evolve through over its lifetime. Each financing stage—seed, early, […]
Question: One thing that I think would be incredibly helpful would be to have a spreadsheet showing how a cap sheet evolves under a set of financing rounds with the important variables parameterized so we can play with them. Having spent the past 15 years trying to come up with the definitive spreadsheet model for […]
Monday is a tough day to be a VC blogger because you are competing with Fred Wilson’s MBA Mondays series. Fred once again delivers with his post Financing Options: Capital Equipment Loans and Leases. In this post, he talks about ways to finance your capital equipment without using cash from your equity financing, which is usually […]
Every book we’ve ever read has mistakes in it. Ours is no exception. We tried hard to get everything right, and say it clearly, but we know some errors snuck in. We’ve created an Errata page on this site. Whenever we find an error, or someone reports a mistake, we’ll put it up on the […]
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