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What Type of Business Structure is Right for a SaaS, AI or IoT Company?

ReadWriteStart

Lower tax rates allow an LLC to be more flexible with finances. However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks.

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What Type of Business Structure is Right for a SaaS, AI or IoT Company?

ReadWriteStart

Lower tax rates allow an LLC to be more flexible with finances. However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks.

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Grubhub and Seamless: Effecting The Elusive Private-Private Merger

abovethecrowd.com

As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. Some pretty high-profile mergers have fallen apart because of this issue. 3) Investor/Founder Mindset Challenges.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. He also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Veronis, Suhler & Company and Cowles Media Company and held various operations positions at The Black Book. Vukajlovic has two kids and lives with his family in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

abovethecrowd.com

I would argue that any first year finance student or computer science student would naturally assume this is how traditional public offerings already work (they would be wrong). Door #3: The SPAC Merger. So with that lengthy backdrop, welcome to the table a third way to enter the public market — through a SPAC merger.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part V

Gust

As we conclude our convertible note financing series, there are assorted terms commonly seen in term sheets and deal documents that are worth touching on briefly. The Note Purchase Agreement and Convertible Promissory Note are essential documents for any convertible note financing. merger or acquisition).

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

These costs are much higher than those for IPOs, even accounting for IPO Pops; SPAC shares tend to drop by one third of their value or more within a year following a merger, leaving investors who hold shares post de-SPAC most vulnerable to price declines; and SPAC investors typically differ from de-SPAC investors.

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