Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Things like “ participating preferred stock &# in legalese unsurprisingly never actually call out, “hey, this is the participating preferred language.&# We got a3x participating liquidation preference with interest (not participating with a 3x cap, but 3x participating.

Valuation 405

Valuation Liquidation Preference Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 405

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? The one thing that I think is missing is distributing equity to every single employee in the company regardless of title. Bookkeeper.

Equity 62

Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Nothing better than sitting at LGA writing blog posts. Continuing with the “No Mess” theme of commenting on things that give VCs pause, I thought it would be good to touch on liquidation preference. million balance to distribute to all shareholders prorata. I know……living on the edge.

Liquidation Preference 49

Liquidation Preference LP Preferred Stock Liquidity Event 49

ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

Investing in user experience instead of further ad spend, promotion, or distribution. While there are many concrete definitions out there, I like how Peep Laja, founder of CXL, explained it in a past blog post … Peep Laja: “First of all, UI (user interface) is not UX (user experience). Why Care About Ecommerce UX? Image Source.

eCommerce 100

eCommerce Mobile Conversion Design 100

ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

Investing in user experience instead of further ad spend, promotion, or distribution. While there are many concrete definitions out there, I like how Peep Laja, founder of CXL, explained it in a past blog post … Peep Laja: “First of all, UI (user interface) is not UX (user experience). Why Care About Ecommerce UX? Image Source.

eCommerce 95

eCommerce Mobile Conversion Design 95