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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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What is convertible equity (or a convertible security)?

Startup Company Lawyer

Paul Graham sparked some commentary by declaring in a tweet in August 2010 that “Convertible notes have won. ” As a result, Ted introduced the Series Seed preferred stock documents as an alternative to convertible debt for early stage investments. Why convertible equity is better than preferred stock.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. The entrepreneur launched Zomm in late 2010 and did $700k in sales that year. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. He said, “We estimate that annual RBI market activity has grown 10x in the last decade, from two dozen deals a year in 2010 to upwards of 200 new company fundings completed in 2018.” Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It. . Also of interest.

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New Survey from Fenwick & West Looks at Angel Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

The survey includes responses from 52 Internet, digital media, and software companies that raised money in the Silicon Valley and Seattle in 2010. The majority of financings was structured as preferred stock (69%), as opposed to convertible note financings (31%), and the vast majority of those (83%) had their conversion price capped.

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Examples of good startup term sheets

www.quora.com

and I'll accept) 5 Comments • Nov 1, 2010 Thanks, Ty. Mark Suster • Nov 1, 2010 Here is a post on Brad Feld's blog on the seed financing docs he found, some of which you mention: [link] chives/. David Shen • Nov 1, 2010 Whoa! Ben Joven • Nov 3, 2010 This is great, thanks Mark! Technologist.

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Convertible Note Seed Financings: Econ 101 for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

ii) why are convertible notes issued instead of shares of common or preferred stock? As discussed in part 1 , in the context of a seed financing, a convertible note is a loan that typically automatically converts into shares of preferred stock upon the closing of a Series A round of financing.