Venture Deals, 3rd Edition

Appendix C: Additional Resources

Over the past few years there has been a Cambrian explosion of entrepreneurial resources, including many around financing a company. Following are several important ones:

• Accelerators Accelerators modeled after Techstars (www.techstars.com) and Y Combinator (www.ycombinator.com) have emerged all over the world. These programs typically invest a modest amount of money (around $20,000) in companies in exchange for a small amount of equity (typically 6%). In addition, some offer additional financing of $100,000 or more in the form of a convertible note. The companies then go through a 90-day, intensive, full-time program where they accelerate their startups via help from the accelerators, mentors, and the surrounding startup communities. Several years ago, Techstars founded the Global Accelerator Network (www.gan.co) in an effort to link the best accelerators and provide a series of best practices across them.
• VentureDeals.com (www.venturedeals.com) This is the companion website for Venture Deals and is maintained by us. On it we have a blog where we answer questions submitted via the website as well as highlight great blog posts by other VCs. We include the Foundry Group form documents, other forms of financing documents, and sample merger and acquisition (M&A) documents on the site. We also have a list of many college courses that use Venture Deals along with the syllabi for these courses.
• Equity Crowdfunding If you are an entrepreneur raising ...