15.391
Early Stage Capital
Fall 2010
Topics
- Introductory class: logistics
- Term sheets 101
- Compare and contrast lawyer rounds
- Angels, super angels, micro VC: trends in seed stage investing
- Conclusions: comparisons and contrasts of VC rounds
Readings
- Garland, Russ, ed. “Venture Capital Deal Terms Report.” Fifth edition. Jersey City, NJ: Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 2007. Particularly, read the following sections: deal terms; company valuation; company control; securities (convertible, participating preferred); dilution protection; founder vesting; and stock option pool.
- LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Compare and contrast lawyer rounds · READINGS: No readings
- Bussgang, Jeffrey. “Inside the VC Club: the 1,000 Deciders.” Chapter 2 in Mastering the VC Game . New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2010. ISBN: 9781591843252.
- Guest: Chris Gabrieli, Venture Partner, Bessemer Ventures; Chair, Mass 2020
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.