Series Seed Documents
The Series Seed Documents were created by Ted Wang and Marc Andreessen in 2010. This set of legal documents are used to help new companies raise money from investors.
History
Ted Wang{{Cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Jeff |last2=Kosuri |first2=Praveen |last3=Grant |first3=Bernice |date=2017–2018 |title=Democratizing Entrepreneurship: Online Documents, Tools, and Startup Know-How |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jrlaff26&div=24&id=&page= |journal=Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law |volume=26 |pages=193}} and Marc Andreessen{{Cite book |last=Rice |first=Bob |title=The alternative answer: the non-traditional investments that drive the world's best performing portfolios |date=2013 |publisher=HarperBusiness |isbn=978-0-06-225790-1 |edition=1st |location=New York, NY}} who were partners at Fenwick & West published the Series Seed Documents in 2010 to help lower the costs and barriers for startups to obtain funding.{{Cite journal |last=Coyle |first=John |date=2014-12-01 |title=Contractual Innovation in Venture Capital |url=https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol66/iss1/3/ |journal=UC Law Journal |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=133 |issn=0017-8322}}{{Cite web |last=Swisher |first=Kara |date=2010-03-03 |title=Series Seed Documents Legal Guru Ted Wang Speaks |url=https://www.wsj.com/video/series-seed-documents-legal-guru-ted-wang-speaks/ |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=The Wall Street Journal}}{{Cite book |last1=Lawton |first1=Kevin |title=The crowdfunding revolution: how to raise venture capital using social media |last2=Marom |first2=Dan |date=2013 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0-07-179045-1 |location=New York, NY |pages=44}} An appeal of these documents is there simplicity and open source license.{{Cite journal |last=Bernthal |first=J. |date=2018-01-01 |title=The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Finance: A New Typology |url=https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1215/ |journal=Brigham Young University Law Review}}{{Citation |last=Taulli |first=Tom |title=Raising Capital |date=2012 |work=How to Create the Next Facebook |pages=45–62 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4302-4648-0_4 |access-date=2024-08-26 |place=Berkeley, CA |publisher=Apress |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4302-4648-0_4 |isbn=978-1-4302-4647-3|url-access=subscription }}
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