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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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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. The company has done $400k in sales in less than two years and had an early test deal with a local supermarket chain that they were massively overperforming on. in 2012 sales and $2M in income.

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No Mess (Too Much Liquidation Preference)

ithacaVC

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. One final background point, a “liquidation event” is a sale of the company and typically NOT an IPO.

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Ecommerce UX Mastery: Beginner to Pro in a Blog Post

ConversionXL

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). Have a Prominent Sales and Specials Section.

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Ecommerce UX Mastery: Beginner to Pro in a Blog Post

ConversionXL

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). Have a Prominent Sales and Specials Section.