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Shark Tank Season 4 week 10 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

They talked about a referral program, as well as direct sales. The company did $250,000 in sales last year and is profitable. They had three stages to their plan. The first was to franchise their model, selling a captain a $35,000 boat and a business plan to replicate Corks Away for $175,000.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet.   On the last line on page two of the workbook, you see the resulting returns to the entrepreneur with a variety of terms and valuations and assumptions. Let’s start at the end.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. For example, VCs generally write it into the deal thatin any sale, they get their investment back first.