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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Global Small Business Blog. Member since 01/2005. Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. Follow us on Twitter.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). Or worse yet they may never get financed. And well they should be. And so on down then line. Have a cushion.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). Ok, let’s dive in and discuss in more detail. Mega VC, Micro VC.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. When you outsource…at least in the early days…it matters little wheter you pick a local bank or a global one. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

“Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Panel 2 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Investments in Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Alternatives.