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The following links provide background information on startup valuation and VC term sheets.  They are a good source of information that is complementary to the vcAdviser tool because they typically leave off where vcAdviser begins.  vcAdviser uses the estimated startup value and the proposed VC terms sheet as a starting point.  With the startup value as input, the tool focuses on clearly illustrating how the startup value is divided among the investors and the company founders, as determined by the arcane, often hard to understand terms specified in the VC term sheet. There are many convincing war stories highlighting the benefits of gaining a thorough understanding of VC term sheets.

Startup Valuation

Term Sheets

The early stage investors provide startups with either debt or equity financing.  The seed stage debt financing is often structured as a convertible debt with a price cap, while the initial equity financing is generally structured as a Series Seed or Series A (venture) financing.  Economical term sheet provisions are often considered the most worthy of negotiations.

Series Seed

Since Series Seed documents are intended to reduce both the time and cost of a financing transaction they are designed to be much simpler than the Series A documents.

Series A

The National Venture Capital Association developed a model term sheet document that intends to reflect current practices and customs, as well as, highlight "best practices" in VC financing. Additional explanations of the meaning of the term sheet provisions are published by many law firms with venture capital practices.
There are several web sites that are able to generate a skeleton term sheet document based on the information entered by the user into the web site's document template.