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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. In a typical venture financing, there is a voting agreement that governs how specific board seats will be filled.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). ► 2008. (14).

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. He has veered away from angel financing, and has decided to bootstrap with customer money, and preserve equity ownership, foregoing any immediate dilution related to financing.