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A reader asks: We’ve gotten commitments for a seed investment of $600,000, and the lead investor advised us that to save time and money on legal fees we should use the Series Seed documents, which he said are just fill-in-the-blank forms, with no negotiations. Have you heard of the Series Seed documents and, if so, do you think this makes sense?

Answer: The so-called “Series Seed” documents are a stripped-down set of preferred stock financing documents, which were designed for seed investments by Silicon Valley lawyer Ted Wang (with an assist from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz). The goal, as Ted notes on the site, was to “(create) a simple set of documents for early stage investment.”

To read the full, original article click on this link: Will the ’series seed’ documents help you grow? | VentureBeat

Author: Scott Edward Walker