The other night was an amazing workshop for the packed crowd at 801 K Street with incredible insights into building constructive relationships with investors. So much was covered it is hard to do a summary that does the session justice. The discussion was particularly lively, with lots of questions from the audience.
Matt van Leeuwen set the stage with a soup-to-nuts review of what investor are interested in during a fund raise and what terms they may seek in a Term Sheet and the final documents. He gave a good perspective on what is negotiable–and what is not. He also warned about terms that can turn out very unfavorably for startups.
Matt discussed different types of financing options for companies, terms startups might hear, standard terminology and special types of agreements that you might here. The Q&A led to an attendee to announce he had just been saved a great deal of time and stress in the near future.
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