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First Round Funding Terms and Founder Vesting

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. 2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. I had multiple term sheets to do my Series A financing.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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“This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Are Pitch Decks becoming obsolete? It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. So eventually the money has to start flowing. So get out there and start raising your capital!

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.