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Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy

Up and Running

Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Management buyout: If you’ve built a business whose legacy you want to see continued long after you’re gone, you may want to consider turning to your employees. Who needs an exit strategy?

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Share options are key to Valley culture; the UK is getting close, but not there yet

The Equity Kicker

Many of those newly minted millionaires go on to invest in startups themselves, which fuels the ecosystem and makes them role models for the next generation of startup employees that are hoping for a big payday from their options. That’s great for the startups because option holders are often happy to work for lower salaries.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

Most founders stick around for their lock-up period (1-2 years) before going on to found their next company. And wants to structure a huge payout for the employees that will remain. I know many rank-and-file employees. et al really have to keep up with the Jones’s to build its future? Does Yahoo!

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Slack S-1: Will ARPU Drive Long Term Value?

View from Seed

Practically speaking this doesn’t mean that all of the shares owned by founders, investors, employees (RSUs), or others will be available to trade immediately as they will need to be converted and registered for public trading. But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders.

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Looking Ahead, Predictions For 2019

Haystack

The next two years could be epic for tech IPOs and the Bay Area specifically — the combined market caps of the pipeline, even taken with a discount, total in the hundreds of billions, with many of the key shareholders (as investors and employees) residing in the Bay Area.

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Slack S-1: Will APRU Drive Long Term Value?

Agile VC

Practically speaking this doesn’t mean that all of the shares owned by founders, investors, employees (RSUs), or others will be available to trade immediately as they will need to be converted and registered for public trading. But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

The Israeli innovation authority deems the sector suffers from ‘ chronic employee shortage’ The battle for talent has meant that companies had to lure potential employees with billboards, influencer videos, referral schemes, etc. I commented on this to Israel21c in the early days of the tre nd.