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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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Preface

One of the ways to finance a company is to raise venture capital. While only a small percentage of companies raise venture capital, many of the great technology companies that have been created, including Google, Apple, Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, and America Online, raised venture capital early in their lives. Some of today’s most significant entrepreneurial companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, LinkedIn, and Uber were also recipients of venture capital.

Over the past 25 years we’ve been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings. About 15 years ago, after a particularly challenging financing, we decided to write a series of blog posts to demystify the venture capital financing process. The result was the Term Sheet Series on Brad’s blog (www.feld.com/archives/ category/term-sheet), which was the inspiration for this book.

As each new generation of entrepreneurs emerges, there is a renewed interest in how venture capital deals come together. We encounter many of these first-time entrepreneurs through our activities as venture capitalists at our firm, Foundry Group (www.foundrygroup.com), as well as our involvement in Techstars (www.techstars.com). We were regularly reminded that there was no definitive guide to venture capital deals and decided to create one.

In addition to describing venture capital deals in depth, we have tried to create context around the players, the deal dynamics, and ...

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