Regardless of how much you know about term sheets, you still need to be able to negotiate a good deal. We’ve found that most people, including many lawyers, are weak negotiators. Fortunately for our portfolio company executives, they can read about everything we know online and in this book, so hopefully in addition to being […]
Before we talk about the dynamics of the negotiation of the deal, it’s useful to understand the motivation of the person you’ll be negotiating against, namely the venture capitalist (VC). We’ve been asked many times to divulge the deep, dark secrets of what makes VCs tick. One night over dinner we talked through much of […]
Today’s VC Post of the Day is from Richard Dale (Sigma Partners) titled All the Bad Things VCs want to do to You! I don’t think this particular post needs much of an explanation.
Albert Wegner (Union Square Ventures) has today’s VC Post of the day titled If You Need To Raise Money, Get Your Financing Done ASAP. In it, Albert expresses his belief that given the current macro economic environment, companies should focus on getting their money raised quickly – as in right now. He’s conveying global / macro […]
Now is your chance to show off their proficiency with a spreadsheet. Even if you know what a cap table is, we’ll give you a simple way to calculate the summary level ownership categories with a calculator (or a simple spreadsheet model). Now that we’ve worked through all of the specific clauses in the term […]
Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital) has the VC Post of the Day with Always be Recruiting. The best CEO’s I know are always recruiting, completely obsessed with building the best possible team, and tireless about meeting great new people that might some day be a fit for their company. As a bookend to this, Eric Friedman […]
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