Naming Preferred Stock Sales Syndication 
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APRIL 28, 2010
Some angel investors join together in syndicates. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. When we got into such a scrape, our investorstook advantage of it in a way that a name-brand VC probably wouldnthave. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from.
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APRIL 28, 2010
You give a startup money and they give you stock. Youllprobably get either preferred stock, which means stock with extrarights like getting your money back first in a sale, or convertibledebt, which means (on paper) youre lending the company money, andthe debt converts to stock at the next sufficiently big fundinground. [
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