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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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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. management. Small Business Labs. Emergent Research.

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

Tim Keane

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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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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