ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

As the investors’ aggregate liquidation preference (ALP) increases typically the need for a MCOP also increases. The ALP is the total amount of $ that preferred stock holders are owed on a sale of the company under their liquidation preferences. A few key points to consider: 1.

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Liquidation Preference Management Preferred Stock Dividend 55

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. If you can’t figure this out yourself, you should probably build a liquidation preference spreadsheet to model how liquidation preferences work depending on M&A transaction value.

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