Equity Preferred Stock Startup Syndication 
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.
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Tim Keane
APRIL 12, 2006
Startups and angels: Along the way to success. It also gives investors information about your intellectual integrity and some glimmer of how you will face adversity in the startup process. We don’t like them and would prefer not to be involved. Preferred Stock is the most usual form of investment today.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. 1 ] A startups life will be more complicated, legally, if any of theinvestors arent accredited.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. You give a startup money and they give you stock. You give a startup money and they give you stock. Thats how you win: by investing in the right startups. Dont feel like you have to join a syndicate, though.
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