Venture Deals, 4th Edition: Be Smarter than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Brad Feld · Jason Mendelson

Oct 2019 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Barry Abrams

About this audiobook

How do venture capital deals come together? This is one of the most frequent questions asked by each generation of new entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, there is little reliable information on the subject. No one understands this better than Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. The founders and driving force behind the Foundry Group-a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage information technology companies-Brad and Jason have been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings. Their investments range from small startups to large Series A venture financing rounds. The new edition of Venture Deals continues to show fledgling entrepreneurs the inner-workings of the VC process, from the venture capital term sheet and effective negotiating strategies to the initial seed and the later stages of development. Fully updated to reflect the intricacies of startups and entrepreneurship in today's dynamic economic environment, this new edition includes revisions and updates to coverage on negotiating, gender issues, ICO's, and economic terms. New chapters examine legal and procedural considerations relevant to fundraising, bank debt, equity and convertible debt, how to hire an investment banker to sell a company, and more.

About the author

Brad Feld, currently a partner at Foundry Group and a cofounder of Techstars, has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over thirty years. He is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship.

Jason Mendelson is a lawyer, entrepreneur, startup founder, venture capitalist, software engineer, criminal justice reformer, and musician. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Law School for over a decade.

Barry Abrams has narrated and produced audiobooks for a variety of publishers. Since 2012, he has also hosted and produced ESPN's In the Gate podcast. Based in Danbury, Connecticut, Barry engineers and calls live webcasts of his son's ice hockey games.