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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. It was 1991.

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Killer articles on startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is meant to be relatively industry-agnostic and focuses primarily on online components of the business (meaning, it may not apply to businesses which avoid the Internet for whatever reason. Great basic guide on VC / Startup liquidation preferences: [link]. Beware the trappings of liquidation preference | VentureBeat.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. what kind of stock you are getting. what your rights are.

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PSA – So God Made a Venture Capitalist

ithacaVC

It had to be somebody who’d know-it-all-social, mobile, cleantech and greentech or the “internet of things”. So, God made a VC! Somebody to see beyond the waves, to observe and predict, pretend and challenge…and pontificate and spray and pray. and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to the home-by-the-sea.

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Grubhub and Seamless: Effecting The Elusive Private-Private Merger

abovethecrowd.com

There are common stock, common options, and as many as three to five different layers of preferred stock, each with a specific liquidation preference. android Internet marketplaces Merger Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech grubhub mergers online seamless'

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

liquidation preference. How to Proactively Protect Your Online Reputation - Startup Professionals Musings , June 12, 2010 These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Yes, even bootstrappers. This pitcher has retired 5 of the last 7 batters. Your employees can’t also be your friends. learned this the hard way.

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New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

www.founderinstitute.com

Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, and others in the debate agree to a dramatically simplified term sheet with some significant changes against the norm : - The elimination of participation , which has become a common request since the Internet bubble burst.