This is the seventh post in a Friday series on “raising VC money.” I’ve really enjoyed writing these posts and to have an opportunity to interact with many folks. Thank you for the encouragement! Today, we’ll cover the topic “how to negotiate the legal documents.” So, you’ve successfully pitched the VC and his partners (more
Category: Technology and VC
The new market for seed financings
I was on a panel this morning at the Cambridge Innovation Center (many thanks Ben Hron and Rick Lucash) with NEVCA’s C.A. Webb and NextView’s David Beisel. A lot of entrepreneurs had questions about the new JOBS Bill and the crowd-sourcing opportunities it may create for seed financings. The discussion made me realize again that the early-stage
An interesting weekend
One of our investors invited me to attend their annual retreat, which occurred this weekend. They asked me to speak about VC trends and investment themes. This investor has a very unique and special structure. Basically a number of very wealthy families came together and jointly hired an elite investment staff to invest their capital
Raising VC money: how to negotiate a term sheet
This is the sixth post in a Friday series on “raising VC money”. For the list of topics we are covering, click here. In this post, we’ll focus on “how to negotiate a VC term sheet.” Let’s say that after interacting with a VC, you’re at last invited to the all-critical partners’ meeting (more here)
Seed companies are NOT lottery tickets
Foundry’s Seth Levine recently had a great blog post about what can happen when VCs do too many seeds (more here): I’m seeing an increasing number of Series A pitches where a company has at least one venture investor in its seed, the business is very clearly doing well and where the entrepreneur is simply
New VC data: decline in seeding
Flybridge’s Michael Greeley has a great write-up on newly-released data from the National Venture Capital Association (click here). In particular, he writes about the seed market: “End of the Great Seed Experiment” which is something I have been saying for the better part of a year – there was only $141MM invested in 53 deals