Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. I got my start when I was young—as an eBay Powerseller—and I eventually moved on to building a thriving marketing agency. Thanks to Daniel Javor, Next Luxury ! #4- 7- Make a difference.

Entrepreneur 133

Entrepreneur Database B2B Technical Review 133

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Equity investments are not loans, so there is no loan payback period or interest payments. Equity investments are not loans, so there is no loan payback period or interest payments. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

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Exit Strategy Startup Private Equity Equity 376

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Congratulations!

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Economic growth is generally measured by equity, bond, and commodity prices. This is known as an adverse demand shock. This makes the surviving companies stronger and means that they are better able to meet market demands in the future. Another significant effect of a recession is a rise in anti-competitive mergers.

Intellectual Property 92

Intellectual Property Portfolio Analytics Equity 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Congratulations!

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Equity investments are not loans, so there is no loan payback period or interest payments. Equity investments are not loans, so there is no loan payback period or interest payments. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. Even three years is a long time to wait for any pay check.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

It’s almost impossible for a business owner to keep up with all the international and multistate tax regulations, mergers and acquisitions issues, and equity compensation happenings. Startups with multistate or international tax issues may find it in their best interests to work with tax professionals experienced in these areas.

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Ratchet Merger New York Engineer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. Even three years is a long time to wait for any pay check.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 231

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

I’ve heard of similar “advisory” requests from other big celebrities, ranging from a 50-90% stake, which is really more like a merger. 2%, you treat advisor equity just like founder or employee equity: vested over 4 years. I get regular intros & feedback, and they endure minimal demands on their time.

Equity 46

Equity Vesting Advisory Board Merger 46

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In today’s installment of our convertible debt series, we cover a specific case where the company is acquired before the debt converts into equity. They either get a multiple payout on the debt, or get the equity upside based on the previous preferred round price. There are a few different scenarios.

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Conversion Sales Later Stage Preferred Stock 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Equity investments are not loans, so there is no loan payback period or interest payments. Equity investments are not loans, so there is no loan payback period or interest payments. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

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Exit Strategy Entrepreneur IPO Startup 289

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

For convertible notes, the only liquidity event we need be concerned with is an acquisition of the startup in the near future, before the maturity date; otherwise, the notes will convert to equity of one kind or another, and the eventual sale of that equity (in a public offering, acquisition, or private sale) is a different subject for another day.

Finance 79

Finance Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet Liquidity Event 79

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

In fact, there are many types of crowdfunding, including donations, reward, pre-orders, loans, and equity. Professional investors, and more serious entrepreneurs, are most interested in money for ownership of a portion of the business (equity), and equity crowdfunding is still a small portion of the total (less than 10 percent), but growing.

Equity 180

Equity Due Diligence Angel Groups Liquidity Event 180

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Technical Review Social Media 83

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Thus, it’s in everyone’s best interest to see the startup raise more capital rather than declaring default and demanding repayment. In rare cases where a startup is cash flow positive very early in its lifecycle, it may actually be able to pay off the notes without raising any equity investment.

Finance 107

Finance Term Sheet Pre-Money Valuation Early Stage 107

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group.

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Acquisition Merger Social Network Revenue 104

Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

Because they will keep 20% equity each at the time of the acquisition, that means $6M each before taxes and vesting. Shareholders demand it! So Frank Merger from GooBook starts talking to ZombiePlatypus. When a partner at GiganticTree Ventures asks them how they plan to reach sales of 100M/year, they have all the right answers.

Silicon Valley 78

Silicon Valley Las Vegas San Francisco Vesting 78

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities. Mergers trigger job losses; IPO’s create jobs.

IPO 40

IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. .

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

There will always be demand for good counsel. Next up: the model reincorporation merger kit). Second, the model seed docs tend to impress upon the entrepreneur that preferred equity is the best angel investment structure. While the practice of startup law isn’t rocket science, it is nevertheless complex. Conclusion.

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Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 49

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

There will always be demand for good counsel. Next up: the model reincorporation merger kit). Second, the model seed docs tend to impress upon the entrepreneur that preferred equity is the best angel investment structure. While the practice of startup law isn’t rocket science, it is nevertheless complex. Conclusion.

Delaware 45

Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 45

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product. The Road Ahead?

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Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

I think [00:14:48] graphic from six years ago still largely holds true the website is one of the core pieces of digital equity that you can build and just because people aren’t seeing it as much doesn’t make it any less valuable.

Search 31

Search Technical Review SEO San Diego 31

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

CB Insights regularly produces data-driven reports and analysis on venture capital, private equity, angel investment, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs and emerging high-growth industries. Clarity.fm , similar to Google Helpouts , offers an on-demand expert network for startups. 6) CB Insights. 7) Mattermark. 8)Clarity.

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Some employees care about titles more than others and either ask or demand title changes that others don’t care about. Internal equity of titles but an external mismatch can cause a lot of heartache both in hiring and in noting who is in a management role. Is a Controller a VP or a Senior Director? And does it really matter?

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Merger Equity Employee Hiring 48

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery. Most IPOs have lockups that prevent additional secondary shares coming into the market, sometimes for as long as 6-months. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. Seriously mean it too. Anti Matter Also raising 25K is just as hard as 250K.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. In “normal” market conditions, 20% is the norm.

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Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80