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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

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference.   First , dividends.

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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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