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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. They won a design award at a trade show, but have no revenue and no orders. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective.

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Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First

Both Sides of the Table

Once you cross the threshold where their percentage ownership would be worth more than the value of their preference they “convert&# their preferred stock into common stock and take their proceeds pari passu (along side and on the same terms as you) with the common stock holder. But pass they will. Time suck.