www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. First, you’d probably want them to receive common stock, not preferred stock (which is the likely next round). Blog blog archive. Quora Answers. About Matt.

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Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 23, 2009

Adeo was focused on creating mechanisms to protect founders who may lose control of the companies they created after raising financing from investors. The current customary form of venture financing documents has not changed much since with mid-1970s when they first became widely adopted in Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Because by an order of magnitude Silicon Valley has the most startups, VCs, large exits, etc., the majority of the content available online for founders to educate themselves comes from Silicon Valley. Apart from YC itself, Silicon Valley already is an aberration among startup ecosystems. Billion or bust.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. And large checks require very large exits to achieve good returns.

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

Take into consideration board seats, the investor’s equity stake in the business and whether they will receive preferred or common stock. It didn’t come from the traditional incubators or super angels found in Silicon Valley; instead, we took an unorthodox route. Our biggest red flag was that we just didn’t trust them.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

As with all M&A exits, there was a round of congratulatory messages to the founder in the Silicon Valley echo chamber. I already own stock in Twilio indirectly through a limited partnership interest in a venture fund and don''t need to bet more on Twilio. This is often a sign of an acquihire or very small exit.

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Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley Common Stock 28

Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We networked to him through three sources – one of my [Harvard Business School] professors who knew him well, a Silicon Valley CEO friend of Michael’s who knew him, and a Fortune 500 CEO with whom Michael was friendly. This approach will keep the financing relatively simple and inexpensive and will defer the company’s valuation (i.e.,

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

It is the story of the founding of the venture capital industry in Silicon Valley and features many of the iconic companies created including Apple, Intel, Genentech and Cisco. Angel Investors Silicon Valley term sheets venture financing venture capital'

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 46

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Facebook, Inc. Read More ».

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Reading on, the term sheet states, “The $8 million pre-money valuation includes an option pool equal to 20% of the post-financing fully diluted capitalization.&# This reverse dilution benefits all classes of stock proportionally even though the common stock holders paid for all of the initial dilution in the first place!

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. He obviously has a founders common stock stake along with cash invested. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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