The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 22, 2012

That’s exciting and motivating for founders, and makes it easier to enlist support for your mission from investors, new employees and customers and will get you talked about on blogs and at cocktail parties. Big ambition should equate to a big opportunity to make a difference to the world and to make a lot of money. Powerful stuff.

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Liquidation Preference Distribution Web Conversion 134

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? You need to know how liquidations preferences work.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. Second a liquidation preference and a participation. On page two of the spreadsheet, you can see the result of dividends, liquidation preferences, and participation terms.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Does A Billion-Dollar Valuation Buy Employee Happiness? Good read for entrepreneurs & startup employees on liquidation preferences – crowdspring.co/1neVvzy.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. If you can’t figure this out yourself, you should probably build a liquidation preference spreadsheet to model how liquidation preferences work depending on M&A transaction value.

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Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 21, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Sick Leave for Your Employees: Why it Matters – crowdspring.co/1gFez17. Sick Leave for Your Employees: Why it Matters – crowdspring.co/1gFez17. 1kK5bjM.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Accordingly, the deal may be a mere fiction designed to get funds into the startup to be distributed to its investors. The deal is typically structured as an asset purchase (as opposed to a stock purchase or merger) — though the acquirer often does not actually want the startup’s IP and/or other assets.

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Founder Merger IP Liquidation Preference 45