VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

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.

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 158

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. ” This is because, when a company decides to sell itself to another company, the buyer will often incorporate or merge the services of that company into their own product or service offerings.

Exit Strategy 117

Exit Strategy Lock-up Period Merger IPO 117

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

If you give $2 million for 20% of a company ($8 million pre + $2 million investment = $10 million post-money valuation) that has no product and no customers and it turns around 3 months later and sells for $5 million it would hardly be fair for investor to get $1 million back (20% of the proceeds). I know many rank-and-file employees.

Liquidation Preference 357

Liquidation Preference Early Stage Retention Lock-up Period 357

View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

Even before that, we all knew that it was among the most rapidly growing SaaS companies in recent years and a product used (and loved) by millions of people. But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. Slack dropped their S-1 a couple weeks ago.

Lock-up Period 168

Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 168

Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The result is more startups, more money and firms to fund it, and an increasing belief that access to technology-related equity (either as a founder, employee, or investor) must become increasingly democratized or rebalanced as a result of the compounding effects at scale we are now witnessing. 3/ The Streaming Media Effect.

China 146

China Startup Lock-up Period Cap Table 146

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

Even before that, we all knew that it was among the most rapidly growing SaaS companies in recent years and a product used (and loved) by millions of people. But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. This post also appears on NextView’s blog.

Lock-up Period 100

Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 100