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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean.

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

Tim Keane

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization.

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