Jason and I hope you enjoyed reading our term sheet series at least as much as we enjoyed writing it. While we won’t be competing with our friend Jack Bauer for any drama awards (I tried to make it 24 posts, but could only get to 20), we’ve tried to take a balanced and pragmatic approach to explaining the mysterious “VC term sheet.” Remember – we’re not lawyers (ok – Jason is) and this isn’t legal advice so you should not rely on it for anything, yada yada standard disclaimers follow. In other words, use at your own risk.
For ease of reference, following are the various sections (linked to their corresponding post) that we covered.
- Price
- Liquidation Preference
- Board of Directors
- Protective Provisions
- Drag Along
- Anti-Dilution
- Pay-to-Play
- Dividends
- Redemption Rights
- Conversion
- Conditions Precedent to Financing
- Vesting
- Information Rights
- Registration Rights
- Right of First Refusal
- Voting Rights
- Employee Pool
- Restriction on Sales
- Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement
- Co-Sale Agreement
- Founders Activities
- Initial Public Offering Shares Purchase
- No Shop Agreement (also Unilateral or Serial Monogamy)
- Indemnification
- Assignment
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for things we missed, email me anytime. We have had numerous requests for republishing this content – if you are interested, please contact me. We’re usually happy to oblige – we just want to make sure we know about it. Until next season …