Acquisition Finance Liquidation Preference Startup 
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup. The first few people into a startup are on a spectrum of founder vs. early employee. I've talked about this topic before in How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.
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Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Mark Suster wrote a great post yesterday titled The Resetting of the Startup Industry. I watched, participated, and suffered through every type of creative financing as companies were struggling to raise capital in this time frame. Until you are consistently generating positive cash flow, you depend on someone else for financing.
Up and Running
AUGUST 17, 2015
Additionally, I had already studied Economics and Finance during undergrad, making the academic part of an MBA seem a little redundant. C Corp versus LLC, non-competes, liquidation preferences, preferred versus common stock, and so on). It helps mitigate startup risk. Is business school really necessary?
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
This is an anonymous guest post from a well known startup executive: When we split the atom, Einstein remarked that everything changed but our way of thinking. You could make the same argument about acquisitions and option pools. This has always been true, but now that more startups are being bought, it has become less common.
Scott Edward Walker
DECEMBER 13, 2018
We had a busy 2018, including closing several significant M&A transactions and financings. An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). The acquirer is typically a large successful company, and the target is typically a failing early-stage startup.
www.mattbartus.com
DECEMBER 9, 2012
Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. This is usually done when the company is acquired — if the acquisition price per share of Series A is greater than $0.50, the VC will receive the spread between $0.50 and the acquisition price.
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