Matt McCall of Portage Ventures has the VC post of the day up titled Term Sheet 101: Preferences. It looks like Matt is working on a Term Sheet 101 series which would go nicely with the Term Sheet series that Jason and I wrote a while ago on Feld Thoughts.
Q: I am part of the founding management team of a start-up. We are backed by a few well known VC’s. While I think the prospects of the company are good, I am entertaining the thought of moving into venture capital. I have a number of contacts in the venture capital community from grad school […]
Today’s great VC post actually comes from a lawyer (who represents VCs and VC-baked companies). And he brings good news. (Does that ever happen?). Mike Sullivan, a former colleague of mine and a partner at Howard Rice has a post about new flexible ways of considering stock option grants.
Q: We’re a small startup with an innovative product in the social-networking / communications / UGC monetizing realm, at a pre-alpha stage of development. We have a number of potential deals on the table, the most attractive of which is to raise a large sum ($4mm) through a private placement with an investment bank. This […]
We get quite a few repeat questions – ones that we’ve answered before. Just to remind everyone, we have a search box on the right hand side of our blog. It’s simply the coolest search tool out there. Brad has several posts on his blog, but here is one post in particular that explains what the […]
Q: I understand from your term sheet series that Venture Capitalists get their legal fees paid for by the company they are funding. I have a term sheet with a legal fee cap, but now my VCs are trying to increase the amount saying their legals fees are running higher than expected. What do you […]
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