Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. Sometimes these will ask for 5%-15% of your equity for their support services. Funding or rollout stage.

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Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. Sometimes these will ask for 5%-15% of your equity for their support services. Funding or rollout stage.

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Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

thebarefootvc

MAY 6, 2020

I’ve often faced questions from institutional investors who considered Bitcoin a passing fad and too volatile for any serious consideration. This pandemic seems to be a catalyst that has led investors to rethink their strategies and warm up to the idea of crypto and its underlying blockchain technology.

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Zimbabwe Venezuela Argentina Institutional Investors 59

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG , or environmental, social , and governance, is an issue that’s making big waves, and ESG for nonprofits is getting its share of attention as well. The governance portion of ESG has to do with how ethically organizations govern themselves. Why should that matter to your nonprofit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. Sometimes these will ask for 5%-15% of your equity for their support services. Funding or rollout stage.

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Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors. Governance/Structure. Businesses that plan to use equity incentives (e.g. Fundraising.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 11, 2021

Stock markets are a common platform where individual and institutional investors come together to buy and sell shares. Portfolio Investment covers a wide range of assets that include stocks, government, and corporate bonds. For the people, it becomes a mode to earn income. Nowadays, these exchanges exist as an electronic market.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

The massive institutional investor losses incurred from investments in asset classes unrelated to venture capital due to the global financial crisis have only fanned the wildfire fire burning in the American innovation forest. Investors take risk in order to reap rewards.

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IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

ithacaVC

APRIL 5, 2011

With convertible debt, however, you can raise money via a debt instrument that later converts to equity typically at a discount to the next qualifying equity round price. A real institutional investor wants to invest $XX,000 in his company. I stress that the offer is from a real investor with a good reputation.

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Common Stock Stock Cap Table Preferred Stock 45

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

To avoid disappointment and optimize resource use, leadership should establish a simple, clear statement of principles and commitments regarding the environment and, if they choose, broader issues of social equity and economic development under the rubric of sustainability.

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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.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). The first is a staff constraint. What Are These Intermediaries?

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). The first is a staff constraint. What Are These Intermediaries?

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Putting that point aside, for a moment, what is absent is a quoted liquid market in their equity and debt securities, which means that the determination of the book value of those private companies is necessarily subjective.

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Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

I have to admit my West Coast bias here, having learned the ropes at a large Silicon Valley firm ; it makes little sense to me to have investor’s counsel drafting documents that are woven into the fabric of a company’s governance and capital structure, with which the company will likely be living for years after the investment is made.

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Finance Term Sheet Covenant Accredited Investor 79

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.”

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“This is part of a process taking place in the world in the past decade,” writes TechForGood CEO Omri Boral, “in which the approach of organizations, investors and countries towards social and environmental issues is changing from seeing them as a problem to becoming an opportunity.”. Cohen asks.

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