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

Tim Keane

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM. Let’s start at the end.   So, let’s assume here we have an 8% non-cumulative dividend.

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

This can be a convenient shortcut to separate someone’s status (founder) from their role (employee or contractor or advisor, etc.) It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. As long as the decision is public and definitive, from an external perspective there is no issue.

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