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Wilson Sonsini Term Sheet Generator

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Re: Wilson Sonsini Term Sheet Generator

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In 1999 I worked at Petstore.com (a competitor to the sock puppet firm) and we used to joke that we were going to create a website "termsheet.com" which would generate a term sheet we could then use in negotiation with VCs. WSGR built it! Now every entrepreneur will be able to say to a VC, "we have a term sheet...and need to know whether you are in or out..." I wrote a review of the WSGR term sheet generator here: ht…

> Now every entrepreneur will be able to say to a VC, "we have a term sheet...and need to know whether you are in or out..."

Maybe if there is another boom and certainly not in this economy ;)

Re: Wilson Sonsini Term Sheet Generator

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Good stuff. WSGR continues to shine in helping entrepreneurs! WSGR is literally a 'textbook' example of what a good law firm is. In my graduate entrepreneurial finance class, we studied a case where an entrepreneur had to choose between giving Rosati a non-trivial amount of equity in return for legal services or going to another law firm. Not knowing how important good lawyers are, when the professor suggested going…

Thank you for the comment. And I'm pretty sure that you are not someone from our marketing department. :)

Re: Wilson Sonsini Term Sheet Generator

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post #10

Good stuff. WSGR continues to shine in helping entrepreneurs! WSGR is literally a 'textbook' example of what a good law firm is. In my graduate entrepreneurial finance class, we studied a case where an entrepreneur had to choose between giving Rosati a non-trivial amount of equity in return for legal services or going to another law firm. Not knowing how important good lawyers are, when the professor suggested going…

Thank you for the comment. And I'm pretty sure that you are not someone from our marketing department. :)

No I am not. Actually the idea of giving equity in exchange for a service still bothers me (like the ad on HN the other day for an apartment for rent in exchange for equity) but I have learnt the credibility that one earns from having a great lawyer can make all the difference, especially early on.
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