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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part I

Gust

The most successful serial entrepreneurs in the world may found three or four, perhaps even eight or ten venture-backed startups over the course of their careers. By contrast, venture capitalists and angel investors typically make scores or even hundreds of investments over the course of their careers.

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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. Daymond was sympathetic because he had been given a chance early in his career, but ultimately be passed. This time I’ll break down week four of this season. BACK 9 DIPS.

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

They are generally high net worth (accredited) individuals who have done well in their career, either as entrepreneurs or as executives and early employees at some of the companies that have done well (in the Valley that usually means Paypal, Google, Facebook etc). Common Stock. Convertible Note or Preferred Stock.

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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

Your offer will almost surely be for common stock. Preferred stock classes typically go to investors, and in some cases founders (usually where the founders have already invested some of their own money to build the company). If the company is acquired or liquidated, the preferred stock holders will get paid first.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

They are not career consultants-they bring experience to the table. Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement. SVPG : They want to share senior level experience and best practices with technology companies. Their Partners all come from industry, where each has held senior level executive positions delivering industry-leading products.