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Shout Out to Seth Levine, or the In-N-Out burger startup

Scalable Startup

Investor groups are cutting out the management, bus dev, sales, and marketing professionals, trying to get raw, young engineering teams that have never negotiated a term sheet to give away their IP rights and equity for next to nothing. I call it harvesting youth. Some of these projects will produce amazing companies.

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

Tim Keane

  At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference.   You can see how these affect the harvest proceeds and investor multiples achieved at various levels.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. 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. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists.