Term Sheet: Indemnification and Assignment

We’re down to our last two sections on a typical VC term sheet. Since they are both things that most entrepreneurs simply live with as part of a financing, we

August 23, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Unilateral or Serial Monogamy

Earlier this week I did a brief post on the “no shop agreement” that is a common feature in a term sheet. I compared signing a no shop to the

August 12, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: No Shop Agreement

As an entrepreneur, the way to get the best deal for a round of financing is to have multiple options. If you’ve been a studious reader of our term sheet

August 8, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Initial Public Offering Shares Purchase

Jason and I are planning to finish strong with some serious stuff in our term sheet series, but we figured we’d put one more term in that has us sniggling

July 28, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Founders Activities

I’m going to keep tonight’s term sheet post short and sweet, especially since I’m still reeling from the horrifyingly bad War of the World movie I just saw. Jason and

July 24, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Restriction on Sales, Proprietary Inventions, and Co-Sale Agreement

I had good intentions earlier this week to try to crank out the balance of the term sheet series, but it turned into a busy week. Since I’m still muddling

July 15, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Voting Rights and Employee Pool

Jason and I are feeling the need for closure on our term sheet series as we’ve started gearing up on our next series (M&A). So – we’re going to knock

July 5, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet: Right of First Refusal

Today’s “term that doesn’t matter much” from our term sheet series is the Right of First Refusal. When we say “it doesn’t matter much”, we really me

June 21, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet – Information and Registration Rights

When Jason and I last wrote about term sheets, Jack was still trying to save the world (surprise – he did) and we dealt with a meaty and important issue

June 20, 2005 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Term Sheet – Vesting

When Jason and I last wrote on the mythical term sheet, we were working our way through the terms that “can matter.” The last one on our list is vesting,

May 10, 2005 · 7 min · Brad Feld