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Term Sheet Glossary

Gigaom’s FoundRead has today’s great post up titled F|R Crib Sheet: The Term Sheet Glossary guest written by Jay Parkhill.  While you can always entertain yourself for hours with the Term Sheet Series that Jason and I wrote several years ago, sometimes a crib sheet will suffice.

Gigaom’s FoundRead has today’s great post up titled F|R Crib Sheet: The Term Sheet Glossary guest written by Jay Parkhill.  While you can always entertain yourself for hours with the Term Sheet Series that Jason and I wrote several years ago, sometimes a crib sheet will suffice.

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Another Way VCs Outnegotiate Entrepreneurs

Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge has today’s great VC post titled In VC deals, Price Doesn’t Matter – But The "Promote" Does.  While I personally dislike the phrase “promote” to describe the concept Jeff is describing (I think “founders post-deal ownership value” – or FPDOV – is a much better phrase, although I realize “promote” is […]

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How Do VCs Discount For Lack Of Marketability of Stock?

Question: While valuing a private company and arriving at a valuation do VCs take into consideration a discount for lack of marketability. If at all, how do they objectively arrive at a figure for such discounts? All of our deals have a lack of marketability in their securities. Startup companies, by definition, don’t have a […]

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What Are Standard Terms and Valuations?

One question that we’ve gotten several times is “what are standard VC deal terms?” For those of you who have followed Brad’s blog, you know that he and I wrote an extensive series on term sheet / venture terms. Over time, we’ll update these entries and bring them over to this site, but for now, […]

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