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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. Lessons from a Failed Forecast. Book Reviews. Small Business Labs. Welcome to Small Business Labs.

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

Tim Keane

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference.   First , dividends.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. If you really want to understand investment psychology & economics you really need to read the seminal book The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. Why Inside Rounds are Difficult?

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