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Should you go after value-add investors for your seed round?

Hippoland

Depending on the rights that you negotiate for, he/she can even block the sale of your company or subsequent fundraising rounds. Or if you’re using a convertible note to raise money, he/she could potentially call the note down the road and demand his/her money back plus interest. Major investor / information rights?

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What is convertible equity (or a convertible security)?

Startup Company Lawyer

At the maturity date, there is a risk that investors may demand repayment. The risk that an investor might demand repayment of a convertible note is eliminated with the convertible security. I’m not sure that founders really prefer to do convertible debt in order to avoid giving away these rights.

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Your Entrepreneur World Changes When You Take Money

Startup Professionals Musings

His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding ones at that. Access rights to operational information. All investors have information rights which are detailed in the shareholders rights agreement.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

Information rights. The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. Co-sale rights. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only.

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New Entrepreneurs Think Investor Money is All Fun

Startup Professionals Musings

His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding ones at that. Access rights to operational information. All investors have information rights which are detailed in the shareholders rights agreement.

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How To Create An e-Book And Sell It In 14 Days Or Less

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Less than two weeks later, that same article became a 100 plus page e-book, professionally packaged and available for sale online as a digital product at LuLu.com. You can use this system to quickly package your information into ready-to-sell products, with the potential of creating a passive income for the rest of your life.