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

Tim Keane

  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.   You can see how these affect the harvest proceeds and investor multiples achieved at various levels.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. At the end of the period, all profits and proceeds are distributed to the various partners on a pre-determined split. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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I Wish I'd Sold More - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

Planning for a Harvest » September 13, 2006. " Distribution is everything. " Distribution is everything. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. « Doing Lunch Rather Than Being Lunch | Main. I Wish Id Sold More.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web? All of this is plan versus actual management, and that’s where we harvest the effort of lean business planning. Should be less effort than a traditional business plan, but the harvest is in the management, unless, and here I’m going in our last ten minutes.

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Out of the Crisis #10: HelixNano founder Hannu Rajaniemi on vaccines, suspending disbelief, and the power of stories

Startup Lessons Learned

It would be a hugely useful investment actually not just for vaccines but potentially creating bootstrapping an enormous amount of manufacturing capability for these new types of medicines that are currently very expensive to make because you don't have the scale to make them. Hannu Rajaniemi : Absolutely.

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Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. free, distributed source code control management system. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. and they will instantly look pretty. Clear Books. FreshBooks.