Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. One can infer valuations based on per share prices of preferred stock and oustanding common shares (~5.3M as of 12/31/09).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

engineers, designers, business developers). Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. Venture studios work as co-founders with a founding team, with the larger ones assigning dedicated internal teams for each startup idea (e.g.,

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. Founders are taking control of the board by making the common stock the founders own more powerful.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your offer will almost surely be for common stock. Preferred stock classes typically go to investors, and in some cases founders (usually where the founders have already invested some of their own money to build the company). If the company is acquired or liquidated, the preferred stock holders will get paid first.

Equity 56

Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Will (should) they insist on it?

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Founder Preferred Stock Startup 40

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Law firms are no more immune to open sourcing than any developer, engineer, or pixel pusher. Tags: Preferred Stock legal documents seed funding startup Startup Lawyer. It’s difficult to do this unless you do this frequently. But it doesn’t mean we’ll all go away, we’ll just adapt by providing more value.

Delaware 49

Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 49

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Law firms are no more immune to open sourcing than any developer, engineer, or pixel pusher. Tags: Preferred Stock legal documents seed funding startup Startup Lawyer. It’s difficult to do this unless you do this frequently. But it doesn’t mean we’ll all go away, we’ll just adapt by providing more value.

Delaware 45

Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 45