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Venture Deals, 4th Edition

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
August 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
9h 33m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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Index

  • Accountants, role of, 14–15
  • Accredited investors, 11, 139–140, 265–266
  • Acquisitions
    • convertible debt in, 122
    • defined, 221–222
    • improving bad deals during, 207
    • investment bankers for, 243–247
    • negotiations in, 195
    • no-shop agreements and, 108–109
    • protective provisions and, 85, 87
    • rights of first refusal on, 182
    • shareholder representatives in, 241–242
    • warrants and, 123–124
    • See also Letters of intent
  • Advantages in negotiations, 189–190
  • Adverse change redemption clauses, 94, 95
  • Advisers
    • confidentiality, IP, and, 21
    • mentors compared to, 15–16
    • spam emails and, 210–211
    • See also Bankers
  • Affirmative covenants and venture debt, 157–158
  • Agency costs, 256–257
  • Ambiguity, elimination of, 84–85
  • American Research and Development Corporation, 1–2
  • Amortization terms and venture debt, 151–152, 154–156
  • Analysts, 6
  • Anchoring on terms, 202
  • Anderson, Harlan, 1
  • Angel investors
    • convertible debt and, 113
    • crowdfunding and, 142
    • micro VC funds and, 9
    • pay-to-play provisions and, 66
    • role of, 10–11
  • AngelList, 139, 141
  • Antidilution provisions, 71–75
  • Applicable federal rates, 119
  • “Approval by investors' partnerships” terms, 96
  • Arguments in negotiations, 204–205
  • As-converted basis, 56
  • Asset-based loans, 149
  • Asset deals, 225–227
  • Assignment agreements/clauses, 20–21, 110–111
  • Associates, 6, 36
  • Attitude for success, 23–24
  • Audience for presentations, 28
  • Automatic conversions
    • of debt, 120
    • of stock, 89–90
  • Automatic dividends, 93
  • Bad deals, improving, 206–208
  • Bankers
    • acquisitions and, 243–245
    • choosing, ...
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