YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

Filing taxes seems straightforward initially: There’s online software to keep founders from misplacing a figure. If your startup is eyeing international expansion early on, your tax compliance and planning needs, both home and abroad, immediately ratchet up. Growth Leads to Complexity. Take sales tax, for instance.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. Shopify itself was started as an online shop in 2004 selling snowboard equipment out of a garage by its founders.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

.” – @jasonlk [link] (at 35:22) Quora: “What methods are employed by VCs to screw founders and engineers?” ” A few solid responses: [link] “The only folks that win on this are the later stage investors who get the benefit of the ratchet…“ – @weschan [link].

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. This narrative was laced through the event, especially with the founder of Thumbtack, Marco Zappacosta, recounting his company’s financing story. Some press showed up, too.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Such a team can also often do the work for you, which helps to ratchet-up your effectiveness. Thanks to Melisa Celikel, Let’s Get You Organized ! #11- 11- Several ways. Photo Credit: Chelsea Rivera. Positive energy and a growth mindset are essential. A motivated team can help eliminate the all-to-natural desire to shirk. 14- Six tips.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

The version of “anti-dilution protection” that most benefits outside investors is commonly called a “full ratchet.” As a middle ground on the “anti-dilution clause” you should be pushing for what’s called a “partial ratchet.” As the small business owner, the goal is just to understand how to negotiate the clause to serve you best.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. At an accelerator …. I see that all the time. My colleague: Whoa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” Khalid Smith , co-founder of LessonCast, will be speaking at the conference about concrete things small startups can do to reach product-market fit with B2C customers.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

These include: ·       Vesting of Founder Stock. Especially in situations where the founders have a large position and are key employees, it is not uncommon for investors to request that they agree to have some portion of their holdings vest on a schedule.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 23, 2012

From Garmhausen: “One of the greatest gifts you can give an entrepreneur is time,” said Mr. Parthasarathi, co-founder of CourseHorse, an online catalog of classes available in New York City, from dance and acting to computer programming. But money wasn’t all that NYU’s Stern School of Business provided the pair.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The ratchet protection put in place by the last round of investors in Square is just the tip of the iceberg, and is relatively benign relative to other structures that I suspect are out there. This may sound a bit scary, but for founders of early stage companies, I wouldn’t be too panicked about how this unfolds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Sometimes they have various ratchets and other bells and whistles that protect their downside further, like when Square IPO’d. The IP transfer from the founder, his family’s underlying interest in some of the real estate—it might end up being all square, but it just gives people pause.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

Once the team was together, they launched version 1, got some happy customers, raised a round of funding, and then soon realised that the two tech founders had embezzled more than half the round and funnelled it into their real company, which they had been secretly building in Germany the whole time. It’s not just cofounders.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

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. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

Akash Bakshi , Nadja Mannowetz , and Andrew Bartynski are the co-founders of University of California, Berkeley-based YourChoice Therapeutics. And often what we're seeing in these hydroxychloroquine studies is a big ratcheting of a typical dose. You ratchet up a drug that has known side effects.

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