Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. They won a design award at a trade show, but have no revenue and no orders. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 9, 2012

Introduction We are in the golden age of seed financing. 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. What is a Convertible Note? price the round).

Preferred Stock 87

Preferred Stock Finance Common Stock Liquidation Preference 87

The Equity Kicker

JULY 4, 2012

Regular readers will be well aware that through 2011 and into early 2012 Nicholas Lovell and I were writing a series of 50 blog posts designed to help entrepreneurs with the fundraising process, and that we intended to publish them in book format once we were finished.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Due Diligence Participating Preferred Dilution 107

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. If you can’t figure this out yourself, you should probably build a liquidation preference spreadsheet to model how liquidation preferences work depending on M&A transaction value.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31