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Founder Term Sheet: The Making of A Winning Term Sheet – Understanding What Founders Want – Part 1

Know your target market. It is one of the most fundamental principles of any successful marketing strategy. Investors who understand what the founder
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What is upgradeable Series A preferred stock? : Startup Company Lawyer

Occasionally, I see a new provision in a term sheet, which keeps things interesting for me. I’ve decided to call this type of Series A preferred stoc
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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
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Series AA Equity Financing Documents — Y Combinator

Y Combinator and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are happy to announce the Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Their goal is to make angel funding
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Full Ratchet Anti-Dilution Protection : Texas Startup Blog

The word “dilution” has several meanings in deal making; it is critical to understand the context. An investor in any given round of financing is con
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Down round financings – Harsh Founder Consequences

A good explanation of how down rounds effect ownership for different kinds of antidilution provisions in term sheets: full ratchet, broad-based weigh
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Understanding Preferred Stock Angel and Venture Capital ‘Term Sheets’

A short but useful explanation of the common items usually found in term sheets when raising VC or Angel funding.
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Writing and Negotiating Term Sheets with a View toward Success

Good overview of some of the items usually included in term sheets and preferred stock.
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Example Legal Documents for Start-up VC Financing

A ‘template’ set of model legal documents for venture capital investments put together by a group of leading venture capital attorneys. The model v
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