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Should Entrepreneurs Attend Business School?

Up and Running

Additionally, I had already studied Economics and Finance during undergrad, making the academic part of an MBA seem a little redundant. C Corp versus LLC, non-competes, liquidation preferences, preferred versus common stock, and so on). See Also How to Find a Business Partner. Is business school really necessary?

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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. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. Reports and Resources.

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

VC Adventure

Paul himself said in a March 2009 article : “When you hear people talking about a successful angel investor, they’re not saying "He got a 4x liquidation preference." I asked this question to a number of angel investors (all with institutional angel funds or running Y-Combinator like programs) and the results were mixed.

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

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. Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now.

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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. 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.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

1M/1M Program has a bold mission. I had an opportunity to catchup with Sramana and we talked about the program. By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.