Jason and I hope you enjoyed reading our term sheet series at least as much as we enjoyed writing it. While we won’t be competing with our friend Jack Bauer for any drama awards (I tried to make it 24 posts, but could only get to 20, although there are 24 sections), we’ve tried to take a balanced and pragmatic approach to explaining the mysterious “VC term sheet.” Remember – we’re not lawyers (ok – Jason is) and this isn’t legal advice so you should not rely on it for anything, yada yada standard disclaimers follow. In other words, use at your own risk.

For ease of reference, following are the various sections (linked to their corresponding post) that we covered.

Price

Liquidation Preference

Board of Directors

Protective Provisions

Anti-Dilution

Pay-to-Play

Dividends

Redemption Rights

Conversion

Conditions Precedent to Financing

Vesting

Information Rights

Registration Rights

Right of First Refusal

Voting Rights

Employee Pool

Restriction on Sales

Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement

Co-Sale Agreement

Founders Activities

Initial Public Offering Shares Purchase

No Shop Agreement (also Unilateral or Serial Monogamy)

Indemnification

Assignment

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for things we missed, email me anytime. We have had numerous requests for republishing this content – if you are interested, please contact me. We’re usually happy to oblige – we just want to make sure we know about it. Until next season …

 
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