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Should Entrepreneurs Attend Business School?

Up and Running

As I read stories of college dropouts who had successfully sold tech companies, or entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who made it big on Shark Tank, it became clear that there was no set path to startup success. C Corp versus LLC, non-competes, liquidation preferences, preferred versus common stock, and so on).

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. Reports and Resources.

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

This is the feeling you get from watching the venture capitalists talk about the entrepreneurs and other investors in the film. In investment parlance, it strictly means that new classes of stock have equal rights with prior classes in terms of liquidation preference, voting rights, etc.

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Has convertible debt won? And if it has, is that a good thing?

VC Adventure

I think the answer to these questions are that 1) it’s not at all clear that this trend is as definitive as Graham suggests; 2) it’s a mixed bag for entrepreneurs (more positive in the short run, potentially negative in the long term); and 3) it’s clearly not a positive trend for early-stage investors. Good for investors?

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New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

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Connect with HU via email at CONNECT@HarrisburgU.edu to learn more about HU and its entrepreneurship and mentoring programs, too. When members see connections, they often partner with one another, backstopping and expanding each other’s capabilities and skills or forming entirely new ventures.

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When You’re a Hammer Everything Looks Like a Nail

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, I wasn’t in the group duped on my MBA program because I first saw it in Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.&#. I believe that this creates more opportunities for both entrepreneurs (who have more exit options) and for investors. That story always stuck with me.

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Cap Tables Explained: Guide to Understanding Cap Tables

Board Effect

Such metrics can include an investor’s liquidation preference, option exercise windows and expiry dates, and shareholders’ fully diluted ownership percentages. There’s the owner—maybe a partner or two—but unless employees are offered equity from the get-go, there’s typically not a whole lot of dilution. Liquidation Preferences.