Finance Liquidation Preference Operations Partner 
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. These liquidation preferences give the investor a debt-like downside protection.
www.founderinstitute.com
MARCH 2, 2010
He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value of over $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth over $600 million. The Lab manages the shared operational needs of its member organizations, allowing them to better focus on mission and execution.
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Up and Running
AUGUST 17, 2015
Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. Additionally, I had already studied Economics and Finance during undergrad, making the academic part of an MBA seem a little redundant.
David Teten
AUGUST 21, 2019
Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. A company with that mindset is dramatically less risky, because it’s not dependent on the financing markets for continued viability. But this is the same for a VC round with a liquidation preference.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. Adding partners and staff, starts to give a false sense of scale. Implications for GPs.
Growthink Blog
MAY 23, 2011
The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. Venture capitalists Have Very Different Objectives than Angel Investors.
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