Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 7, 2012
Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it.
Startup Company Lawyer
MARCH 14, 2010
Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). The primary rights in these documents, ranked in order of importance in my opinion are: Non-participating preferred liquidation preference. Drag-along.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 14, 2010
It is 2010. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices. It will usually be higher because the liquidation preference has a dividend so if the deal is long in the tooth assume that the liquidation preference might be $20-22 million.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.
thinkspace.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?
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