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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

View from Seed

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper , even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. Ideation/IP.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. Both of these are typically reflected in the founder equity split.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. Both of these are typically reflected in the founder equity split.

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

Tim Keane

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.   Say I invest $1MM in a company and receive 40% of the stock.   With a preference, I get $1MM back and then the remaining proceeds are divided so I would receive $1.4MM out of $2MM.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part V

Gust

The purchase agreement sets forth the terms of the investment, often including the mandatory and voluntary conversion provisions we’ve covered in this series, as well as customary representations and warranties of the Company and the investors. See discussion of amendments below.) merger or acquisition).

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.