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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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Getting Founders Some Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs

Hunter Walker

When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. The vast majority of my future savings was (a) not vested yet and (b) tied to hope for future stock grants I’d earn.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

The feature, titled “ Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward ,” offers an inside look into our office.). According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Our portfolio company BetterWorks cites a report by The World Economic Forum: “Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged when wellness is a priority in the workplace.”

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Go vest yourself.