Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. 3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. Second a liquidation preference and a participation.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Blogs. Planning, Startups, Stories. SBA: Small Business Administration Office of Advocacys Home Page. Selling to Small Businesses. Small Business Trends. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have.

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Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. Mature startups with proven business models and the potential to reach the public markets within a few years will be the safest place to park any new venture capital that comes into the ecosystem. Startups, Don’t Pin Your Hopes on VC Dry Powder ( Source ).

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 174

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

This includes the application process, phone calls with us, conversations with co-founders, investors and counsel, etc. Focus on lower-risk business models; no requirement for a ‘swing for the fences’ model. But this is the same for a VC round with a liquidation preference. Soup to nuts.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. liquidation preference.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Lost in this conversation are the dramatic differences between a high priced private round and an IPO. Conversely, these late stage private rounds have no such pageantry or process. Despite this, startups commonly highlight “gross revenue” even when 80+% goes out the door for every single transaction.

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IPO Liquidation Preference Valuation Technical Review 40

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: Take the story of Taariq Lewis, CEO of Voluble, who joined the program with a nebulous idea back in March, and by September, has a crisp positioning, market sizing, real, paying beta customers like IBM, and investors are interested in the business. Also, take the story of Girish Mathrubootham, CEO of Freshdesk. Numerous lessons.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116