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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. To provide an opportunity for VCs and senior executives to engage with the community by giving back rather than just attending more cocktail parties.

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Financing Document Forms

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Many founders want to do SAFE note financings for their early rounds to save time and money. My response to that is “let’s do a priced round, we can use a standard financing form we both like, we won’t use a lawyer on our side, and we can close in a week.” Everything else is pretty standard anyway.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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But the most interesting is that all of his stories involved entrepreneurship. He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part I

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It should therefore come as no surprise that an asymmetry of information exists, mostly gleaned from experience, between founders and investors in a venture financing deal. A term sheet for a convertible note deal may run two or three pages, versus 8-10 pages for a typical Series A Preferred Stock financing.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch.

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Which books would you recommend to a VC analyst-associate?

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Mastering the VC Game. Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship. A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms. Term Sheets & Valuations. A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations. Venture Deals.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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It’s a great one about entrepreneurship, friendship and the collaborative economy that is helping families in need across the world. Monitor had a little internal VC group so he got some experience there. More like a temporary VC just to get some experience and of course we’d pay him. That’s a fact.