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practical ways that you think founders can use to get smart and avoid making those mistakes? The nice part double edged sword here. The nice part about early stage venture is it has kind of come to a consensus on what a good deal looks like. A clean
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...terms that are gonna favor the investors. Why? Because if you're raising a bridge, something didn't go right. You don't have very much leverage if you need their capital because, hey, we missed our targets and we're gonna close down in six months. Th
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...vision. I think every employee in every company should have ownership, should have a portfolio of the companies that they go through. You know, there's a long way to go with that.
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...in in terms of aligning what the expectations are between, let's say, you're about to sign a check to a founder? These little things about how active am I gonna be with your company? How do those agreements get made? How do those expectations get set
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...because in terms of where your income is gonna get, it is gonna really be meaningful. It's probably gonna be more on the equity side. So is it is it to kinda keep all employees motivated and obviously happy? Yes. It's also to avoid debt equity. Right
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and how are both sides protecting themselves when those things go wrong? The clauses are simply implementation details to your point. Revesting is an implementation detail, but each of those are coming back to, here's the way things could go wrong, a
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...deal term that gets propagated across That's right. Documents for years thereon after. That's how it works. But, Dan, I wanted to ask you something. Okay. So you say there's more fortification in a lot of deal terms, more protections perhaps for both
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...with terms. So if if you're an employee thinking about using debt to finance your equity purchases, like,
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There are some deals that are minority deals where we'll be senior preferred. We'll have all protections around debt, major actions, budget approval, etcetera. And even though that minimum return is on an accrued basis on an exit liquidation event or
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...The question then becomes back to the founders, what is most important to them in ranking order, and what are they willing to seed in order to get those things changed?
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...the term sheet that our board member gets some portion, small portion of the ISO shares. We need the best people that we can get to do it, and we're gonna infringe on their time. And it's an extra step, an extra thing that they have to do. So we have
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And you can look at the statistics, but the chances of an IPO are really small. So let's say 90 something percent of the time, the cope is you're gonna sell this company. Right? And so it's important to understand that. If you wanna do a lifestyle bu
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...the term sheet or maybe even gone so far as to sort of, you know, close the funding round. And so they've, you know, they've signed up to the new shareholders agreement, the new articles of association, whatever it might be. I've seen a few provision
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...term sheets that somebody has signed or almost signed? I've seen a few sort of horror stories in in not just in term sheets, but also in the kind of investment documents themselves where, some investors have been a little bit harsh in terms of their
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Absolutely. So we'll get to this. This is the founder view. Okay. So but it's really a collaborative effort. So you as a founder come in at different states. That's why we have the checklist. We have the guides. But this this is really used together
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...the lawyer or disrupt the lawyer is a self limiting belief. I think you guys should plug in in it plug in an AI lawyer, make it one click deploy, standardize the terms, you know, create three variants and flavors, and, like, you guys would create mas
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Your investors don't expect them to read through the tea leaves of your humility. Shout it from the rooftops. Those investors have their own underlying constituents. Nothing feels better than looking good to your boss, and you wanna arm your investor
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