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I'm a software guy. Most of that sheet is a foreign language to me.

Are you starting a (venture-scale) company? Learning this language is critical.

Are you working for a startup? Becoming more familiar with this language is helpful - you can figure out whether the founders/executives know what they're doing or not.

Are you working for a large company? Learning this language will not provide much benefit for you IMO.

If the answer to either of the first two questions is yes, where would I go to learn the jargon? (I do know about google, I'm just hoping there's a good resource that has everything so I don't need to search individual terms).

Venture Deals by Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld is a good overview. If you want to get more technical, the NVCA publishes a list of their own "standard" documents, which go into depth on some of the standard and non-standard provisions and what they mean, but it's not quite as user friendly.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

This book is pretty good and reasonably up to date: https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurs-Guide-Business-Law-4th/...

We used an older edition as a textbook in a Venture Capital seminar back when I was in law school.

Thank you!

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