VC Rights: Up, Down, And Know What The Fuck Is Going On
At the HBS VC Alumni event I was at last week (no – I didn’t go to HBS – I was a panelist) I heard a great line from a
Term Sheet
Using Veri to Understand Term Sheets
For some time Jason and I have felt that VC’s have had an unfair advantage when it comes to understanding term sheets. So a few years back we wrote a
Ask the VC Bonus Material
When Jason and I set out to write Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, we both agreed that we wanted to try to create as useful
Failing Fast at Standardized Seed Deal Documents
While some people hate the phrase “failing fast”, I find it instructive when it’s used to signify that one isn’t going to pursue a particular path in the context of
Negotiating an Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know
I know I owe everyone a follow up to my post from last week titled The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents. To the many of you out there that
The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents
As of today’s announcement that Ted Wang at Fenwick & West has collaborated with a group of bay area early stage VC’s and angel investors to create the Series Seed
Have You Used Our Term Sheet Series In A Course?
Over the years my partner Jason Mendelson and I have heard from numerous people that they’ve been exposed to our Venture Capital Term Sheet Series as reference material in a