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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. Series A Preferred. round closed in June 2004. liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend (1). Series A-1 Preferred. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend. Kayak Software Corporation. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

3/31/2004: 31.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. As if the common stock were actually the same as preferred stock. 3/29/1996: 22.3. Silly them.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

3/31/2004: 31.6 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. As if the common stock were actually the same as preferred stock. 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

Gust

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

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