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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Notes: In an IPO preferred share classes are converted into common stock, and liquidation preferences and accumulated but unpaid dividends essentially go away. One can infer valuations based on per share prices of preferred stock and oustanding common shares (~5.3M as of 12/31/09). Author howerl. Read More ».

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Founders are taking control of the board by making the common stock the founders own more powerful.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. Delaware law gives preferred stock investors of a corporation certain voting rights and control over the corporation. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. Silicon Roundabout.