K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

I may be well be in the minority in the Valley to think this way — especially so as a seed stage investor — but I have a strong preference for doing priced equity rounds for funding companies at any stage. It is in essence equivalent to being a Liquidation Preference that is typically seen in a preferred equity financing.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Equity Liquidation Preference 132

Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Founders of startup companies often wait to incorporate a company until they are confident that their concept is viable or fundable. If there is more than one founder, the likelihood of an argument about how the equity should be split in the new company increases dramatically. If a non-U.S.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 9, 2012

Venture capital funds, seed funds, super angels, angel groups, incubators, and “friends and family” are all playing the seed financing game and investing early in startups in an attempt to land the next Facebook. ii) what happens if the maturity date is reached prior to the note’s conversion to equity? price the round).

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Preferred Stock Finance Common Stock Liquidation Preference 87

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. Well, enter the Pre-Seed round, where the startup raises closer to $500K. At the time of writing the New Venture Landscape, I started to capitalize “Pre-Seed”. Seed rounds were getting bigger.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

But network effects tend to persist because the value of the network to its participants outweighs the costs. Corporate incentives: Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 developed a broad-based equity incentive compensation program known as stock options. Venture capital. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

and of efficiency innovation: [Efficiency innovations] reduce the cost of making and distributing existing products and services. The UK and US governments now get the fact that innovation (and startups) are the engine of growth and job creation, and entrepreneurialism is increasingly cherished within society more widely.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

.  That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing.   Based on the comments received, both on the blog and in the many deals in which these documents have been used, I am convinced that the terms of a simple set of equity documents are really not an issue. 

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The Next Web

JULY 21, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Güimar Vaca Sittic , a two time Internet entrepreneur currently working at Quasar Ventures based in Buenos Aires, and a Startup Chile Judge. An exit does not only mean to sell your company, it is also the sign hanging on top of the door through which your partners can walk away with your equity.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing. First, with convertible debt, startups generally have to pay simple (not compounded) interest on the amount of the loan.

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Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

That’s a little more complicated, because there can be dividends, interest or capital gains, and there’s different tax rates for those. Individual income tax, payroll tax—that’s the same thing as self employment tax—capital gains tax, and then this new one for this year, or not this year, but last year, 2013.

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.Net Capital Gains Distribution Puerto Rico 85