Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). To differentiate it from typical “Series A&# preferred stock, which comes with certain expectations with regard to rights. Anti-dilution protection. Board seat.

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you. Co-founder discontent. Reference checking is to confirm or disprove a strong, positive intuition you already have about founders that could lead to an investment or a pass. Inbound is seldom differentiated dealflow.

Cofounder 374

Cofounder Syndication Syndicate Early Stage 374

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Lower performing VCs will disappear faster and new entrants will differentiate themselves.

Portfolio 118

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 118

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Instead, those funds try to invest in companies that can be “bigger”, but at the early stage, it’s hard to differentiate companies that could be $400M exits vs. $1B exits. The large fund may say to the founder,” wouldn’t you rather just raise $8M instead of $5M for the same (or marginally more) dilution?”

Dilution 61

Dilution Seed Stage Cofounder Early Stage 61

Pascal's View

DECEMBER 30, 2012

While every company founder makes trade-offs in building a company, few entrepreneurs appreciate the far-reaching implications of several critical decisions they will are required to make at the outset of a startup’s evolution. Most founders tend to make decisions with no process, based on their gut instincts.

Cofounder 34

Cofounder Liquidation Preference Vesting Equity 34

aweissman.com

JANUARY 30, 2010

Then there are new sources of financing - groups or people that literally didnt exist as early stage financiers just a few years ago: OReilly AlphaTech Ventures , True Ventures , Jeff Clavier , First Round , Ron Conway & Co. Competitive differentiation. (4) If not, the value of the exchange fund is diluted.

Early Stage 46

Early Stage Entrepreneur Cofounder Framework 46

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 Yes, this was stupid.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

When speaking with founders and private growth investors, we hear countless references to “multiples paid” on current or near-term revenue; both obsess over this because a higher multiple translates to a higher valuation. How valuation multiples work Why did multiples become a shortcut-heuristic for estimating valuations in the first place?

Valuation 36

Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36