David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 1, 2017
This is most clearly highlighted in the “unicorn” boom we all saw over the past few years, where founders raised very large rounds, with terms very onerous to the underlying common stock, hoping they could eventually justify billion dollar valuations to skeptical acquirers or public market investors.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
company has to be more than small and newly founded to be astartup. There are millions of small businesses in America, butonly a few thousand are startups. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. No, not generally.A
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