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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » The 3X Liquidation Preference Is Back!

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@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Holiday Cards Year End Management Changes → The 3X Liquidation Preference Is Back! Let’s recap how expensive a 3x liquidation preference really is. Bookmark the permalink.

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Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

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Mark Suster wrote a great post yesterday titled The Resetting of the Startup Industry. But, more importantly, is another point Mark buries later on, which includes an awesome post of his from 2010. I suffered through the next financing after implementing a complex structure, or a sale of the company, or a liquidation.

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

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In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. The primary rights in these documents, ranked in order of importance in my opinion are: Non-participating preferred liquidation preference.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends. Planning, Startups, Stories. December 2010. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force. Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook. OReilly Radar.

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Is convertible debt with a price cap really the best financing structure?

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I started writing this post in September 2010, but only got around to finishing it.). Convertible debt with a price cap seems to be the preferred structure for early-stage financings. Paul Graham has sparked some discussion on the topic in August 2010 when he tweeted “Convertible notes have won.