Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. A couple of tech giants throw millions around in either cash (for which they have hoards) or part with some publicly traded stock. Go do a startup. And who cares, right?

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Liquidation Preference Early Stage Retention Lock-up Period 357

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Employee Benefits. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice. As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Think of it as similar to an employee stock option.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. I have moved my startup practice to Cooley from Dorsey.

Equity 40

Equity Vesting Silicon Valley Intellectual Property 40

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. The startup process has become demystified – information is everywhere. Not every startup ended up this way. Board Control.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 263

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success.   I’ve sat down with entrepreneurs and a copy of a term sheet guide I like [ “Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations ” by Alex Wilmerding, Aspatore Press.] TrackBack URL for this entry: [link].

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Haystack

JULY 8, 2018

And with this, every year, a new cohort enters into the “tech startup” world, and there’s no official canon to read, no “one-stop shopping” site or user manual to get briefed on the things you absolutely need to know. You can read more about the types of stock granted in startups here.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 7, 2010

million from three individual angel investors and one early-stage venture capital fund. For those of you who don't understand the term "Series A," the Series A round is the name given to your first significant round of venture financing. read more.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

If it's not your plan to get venture capital down the road, then you'll probably stop in Stage 2-receiving enough funding to boost your marketing, sales, and infrastructure to grow organically from there to the point where you are satisfied or ready to sell. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

The companies go through a 3-6 month long startup bootcamp and then typically try to raise angel/seed funding. Angels : Angels are individual investors, who are investing their own capital and doing so on a part-time basis. At first blush, uVCs acting more like institutional venture capital funds may be considered a bad thing.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. The follow-on post is about agile startup team building. of the fully-diluted capitalization of the company.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. Apply for funding by March 3.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Note that MCOPs are rare when the company is young and has only raised a limited amount of venture capital – no need yet for the carve out as the founders still own a large chunk of the company (thankfully). A few key points to consider: 1.

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Liquidation Preference Management Preferred Stock Dividend 55

Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Mike Markkula presenting Steve Jobs with first investment in Apple I recently watched an excellent documentary on PBS, Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists. Startup outcomes tend to be very binary. Angel Investors Silicon Valley term sheets venture financing venture capital'

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