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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. liquidation preference.

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Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO

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Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. There is typically just a single PowerPoint deck presentation.

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

Tim Keane

Startups and angels: Along the way to success.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Second a liquidation preference and a participation.

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Keep Term Sheets Simple for Quicker Cash to Spend

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s true that Angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. As the company grows and the second or third group of investors comes in, the terms of each subsequent financing grow in size, scope, and the number of lawyers’ fingerprints on them.

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A Primer on Angel Investment ‘Simple Term Sheets’

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. As the company grows and the second or third group of investors comes in, the terms of each subsequent financing grow in size, scope, and the number of lawyers’ fingerprints on them.

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On the Road to Recap:

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Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.”

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Series A Startup CEO Salary

The Startup Lawyer

A startup’s Series A financing shouldn’t be a large liquidity event or salary payday for the startup’s founders. While a startup typically receives millions of dollars in a Series A, if too much of that $$$ flows guaranteed to the founders, various incentives get out of whack. Case Study.

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