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Conquering the Term Sheet: Everything you need to know about deal terms (Part 3)

Yesterday, we held the 3rd installment of OurCrowd’s 3-part educational series on how professional investors analyze and construct terms and conditions for their investments. On this week’s Q&A session, we continue to explore the fundamentals of deal terms in startup investing, discussing how to: Understand the basics of deal terms, from full ratchet to anti-dilution Get an insider’s view of crafting deal terms in startup investing Learn what to look for in a term sheet from seed stage to pre-IPO ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Missed the previous installments? View Part 1 and Part 2. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: To stay updated on future events and the best news from the Startup Nation, sign up for our newsletter, email us, and follow us on social media.   View the FULL program Download/view the presentation Conquering The Term Sheet Everything You Need To Know About Deal Terms Part 3 from OurCrowd LLC [xyz-ihs...

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Conquering the Term Sheet: Everything you need to know about deal terms (Part 2)

Yesterday, we held the 2nd installment of OurCrowd’s educational series on how professional investors analyze and construct terms and conditions for their investments. Missed Part 1? View it here. On this week’s Q&A session, we continue to explore the fundamentals of deal terms in startup investing, discussing how to: Understand the basics of deal terms, from full ratchet to anti-dilution Get an insider’s view of crafting deal terms in startup investing Learn what to look for in a term sheet from seed stage to pre-IPO ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: To view the 3rd and final installment of our 3 part educational series on deal terms, click here. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: To stay updated on future events and the best news from the Startup Nation, sign up for our newsletter, email us, and follow us on social media.   View the FULL program Download/view the presentation [xyz-ihs...

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Conquering the Term Sheet: Everything you need to know about deal terms (Part 1)

Want to learn how professional investors analyze and construct terms and conditions for their investments? The following Q&A session explores the fundamentals of deal terms in startup investing. This is the 1st installment of a 3 part series on deal terms. In the 30-minute webinar,we discussed how to: Understand the basics of deal terms, from full ratchet to anti-dilution Get an insider’s view of crafting deal terms in startup investing Learn what to look for in a term sheet from seed stage to pre-IPO ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: View the next installments of our 3 part educational series on deal terms: For Part 2, click here. For Part 3, click here. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: To stay updated on future events and the best news from the Startup Nation, sign up for our newsletter, email us, and follow us on social media.   View the FULL program Download/view the presentation Conquering the term sheet: Everything You Need to Know About Deal Terms for Angel Investing from OurCrowd LLC [xyz-ihs...

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Coming to Terms with Term Sheets: What Angel Investors Need to Know

When an investor plans to make an investment in a startup, one of the things in the forefront of his or her mind is: what are the terms of the deal? Well, luckily a document exists whose sole purpose is to delineate all the deal terms. It is agreed upon by two parties, the startup and the investor, and called, fittingly, a term sheet. Term sheet: investment specifics So what does the big scary term sheet look like “in real life”? While I was reading through terms sheets during my internship here at OurCrowd, I realized that after parsing away the legal jargon (and parsing away some more…), they are basically lists—lists of terms that the investor and the startup have agreed to adhere to in this investment. Note that the term sheet (other than the confidentiality agreement therein) is not legally binding, but under most circumstances, these same terms will make their way into legal documents relating to the deal. The list of terms can be broken down into two categories by asking a simple question: as an...

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