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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

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SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Don’t lose this game.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Another comment which probably deserves more discussion is around valuation. Back to the panel.

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The Equity Equation

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by Nivi on July 19th, 2007. Offers from top-tier firms increase your valuation. Offers from top-tier firms increase your valuation. But overall, an offer from a top-tier firm increases your valuation. Top-tier firms try to avoid increasing your valuation when they make an offer. · Jul 19, 2007.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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View Comments lk says: October 23, 2007 at 9:56 pm the co-founders of textworks just experienced getting shafted by a co-founder! Ryan says: October 24, 2007 at 7:00 am I’m sorry to hear about that. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. would you like to link to one another?

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Founders versus early employees

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Table 1: Options Grants in Silicon Valley for Series A from VentureHacks The numbers from VentureHacks are guidelines. They are rough estimates.Any one have sample option grants in Canada? I would assume that they are very similar but given the lower valuations and this may change the salary/options mix.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

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Many advisors want options they can exercise immediately —that’s fine. If your company hasn’t raised a Series A, increase the advisor’s equity by roughly 30%-50% to account for dilution from seed investors, Series A investors, option pools, swimming pools, and the like. Learn more. Buy it here.