Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends. In some cases, dividends are often paid at the discretion of the board and not required by the terms.   A cumulative dividend compounds annually.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

They [mentor and mentee] need to have safe space together— neither can feel like you’re asking the advisor for performance feedback all the time because if so it’s less likely they’ll have honest, open conversations. You can even present it as part of their ‘comp’ — an equity grant they have ability to distribute (with your approval).

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

But when executed right, it pays dividends. Clicks and conversions are typical KPIs for paid media. Where you might have optimized paid ads for conversions in a lead generation strategy , in a demand generation paid media strategy, you’re aiming for the top of the funnel too. Like SEO, demand generation is a long game.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

In addition, the conversion of an LLC to a C corp results in additional legal and accounting expense. Thus, the earnings of a C corporation are generally taxed twice: once at the corporate level on the corporation’s taxable income and a second time at the stockholder level on dividends or distributions.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2021

As I write this, the vaccine is available and being distributed, but our industry is forever changed, and we will be experiencing hangover symptoms of 2020 to some degree as we make our way through the next 12–18 months. some of it extremely helpful, some of it a regurgitation of what you’ve likely already seen.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 7, 2011

Founders should also try to limit the redemption price to an amount equal to the investment — and push back hard on any cumulative dividends. Redemption Rights What Are Redemption Rights? Redemption shall occur in [three] equal annual portions.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

They’re having conversations with colleagues, researching on social media, and listening to podcasts about the product or industry and learning where your brand fits in. Demand generation helps you influence buyers where they’re having those conversations and in those unattributable spaces. They’re arriving with intent to buy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 20, 2019

Stage two was about getting those five channels to a level where they can start to pay dividends, and then adding on three additional channels. You’ll want to track your conversion rate and make changes to optimize those numbers. Which approaches are generating conversions, and which ones are falling flat?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2014

This is small demonstration of how the power of networking online pays substantial dividends. Today, a kinder, gentler form of marketing called inbound marketing relies primarily on the creation and distribution of content in an effort to “be found.” Content that creates awareness, trust, education, engagement, and conversion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2019

” You’re having a bunch of difficulties, but once you can have some minor conversations or you have some interactions where that person understood what you said and now it feels good, now you feel like, “Oh, this is impressive. What did you say? I don’t understand.” I have this ability.”

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2011

Conversion Rights What Are Conversion Rights? Indeed, preferred stock, as the name suggests, is preferable to (and more valuable than) common stock because it grants certain key rights to the holders, one of which is a conversion right. There are two types of conversion rights: optional and mandatory.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Budgets and delegating and distributing authority (with clear limits and rules) is how this is better managed. While plenty of companies do some form of a management team/e-team meeting, many don’t in favor of 1:1 conversations with the CEO. Matrix, don’t hub and spoke. Communicate.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

This way the investor knows that they can get their money out because they can control the payment of dividends, and can wind down the company and distribute cash if they determine that there is no future in the company. Two of the offers would see the founder cede control of the company to the investor.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

A lot of the times I hear small businesses say, “Oh, those are awkward conversations, and we don’t want to talk about the negatives.” How you get that money out of the corp, where you have to give to yourself either as owner wages, or you have to give to yourself as dividend income.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

You’re getting $1,000 a month from the Freedom dividend that President Yang and Congress passed’, that person is going to have a choice. The problem that many people have conceptually is that they think that the Freedom Dividend is meant as a work replacement. The poverty line is $12,490 a year./

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

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