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Venture Capital

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

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

Valuation

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting

Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

IPO

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock

StartUpRoar

Gust

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

Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

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