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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similarly, when Flexible VC structures are based off of the founder’s own compensation (often via salary or dividends), investors are specifically tying their returns to the financial success of the founder. Founder Earnings” (Founder Salaries + Dividends + Retained Earnings). Profits, Founder Salaries, and/or Dividends Declared.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

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).

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4 Tips for Growing Your Investment Portfolio

The Startup Magazine

Business Consulting meeting working and brainstorming new business project finance investment concept Don’t Focus on the Number of Investments Made You can Indeed expand your portfolio by making more investments and hiking up the numbers. In fact, that is a common mistake which our first of these investment portfolio tips will address.

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All That You Need to Know About U.S. Income Tax

The Startup Magazine

For starters, ‘income tax’ is just a kind of tax imposed by the government on the earnings generated by companies and people within their area of authority. With this tax, governments fund public services, pay their obligations, and fulfill their duties to the citizens.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

I always thought things like student government were stupid, and I don’t typically win popularity contests, so recognizing that, I ran to be section president which is exactly what I thought people would make fun of. Our class was at least a third finance and a third consultants. That’s invaluable.

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Clever Ways to Extract Money from Your Business (and Where to Put It)

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Take a Dividend. A dividend is essentially the same as taking a salary, though not as regimented. You can take dividends whenever you like, instead of on a monthly or quarterly basis, as with a salary. . Taking dividends may be beneficial for some company owners more than others. Deductibles. Paid Benefits.

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What type of entity should I form?

Startup Company Lawyer

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. In any event, the S corp election can be easily revoked at the time of a financing.

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