Chapter 3 of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist is a transitional one that sets up the next few chapters on Term Sheets. At the end of 2005, we participated in a financing that was much more difficult than it needed to be. All of the participants were to blame, and […]
In Chapter 2 of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, we cover the basics of the VC fundraising drill. Your goal when you are raising a round of financing should be to get several term sheets. While we have plenty of suggestions, there is no single way to do this, as […]
Rob Go from NextView Ventures has today’s VC Post of the day titled Some Thoughts on Communicating With Your Investors. It contains some great advice for communicating with your seed investors (both VCs and angels), for building both commitment from your early VC seed investors, and creating a cadence that is effective. Fred Wilson of Union […]
On day two of our romp through the table of contents of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, we cover the various players involved. While it might seem like there are only two players in the financing dance—the entrepreneur and the venture capitalist—there are often others, including angel investors, lawyers, and mentors. […]
Question: In a Series A, the investor is proposing a preferred stock with warrants. The warrants relate to the accomplishment of milestones, are optional, and are priced at 50% above the initial price. Is there an advantage to this versus structuring a two close deal. How do we make the second investment mandatory, more like […]
Every day for the next two weeks we’ll give you a small taste of our new book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by giving you the overview of each chapter along with the titles of each subsection. Of course, our goal with this is to be good book salesmen and encourage […]
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