Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

The end user of the application was those who recycled, however, the recycling and reward redemption process required partnerships with recycling facilities, local businesses, and government agencies. It worked by enticing app users to recycle, which earned them points they could redeem for rewards from local businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. Real-time points and mileage redemption appeared at the POS, first introduced over a decade ago and now going mainstream. Loyalty programs have not changed much since the first airline loyalty cards took off more than 30 years ago. Sure, lots of features were added over the years.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Brands can track redemption rates and promotion-linked in-store sales. The software is entirely web-based and runs on any electronic screen with (an) Internet connection,” says Bhagaban Behera, co-founder and CEO of NoiseStreet. Custom analytics also enables brands to tailor future marketing promotions to suit customer preferences.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Moreover, since the first CEO was likely to have been one of the founders, the trauma of CEO removal begins. Reply Nivi , on September 11, 2009 at 11:17 pm Said: One of the subtle lessons here for founder CEOs: you light a fuse on your own job as soon as you hire the first VP of Sales. innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

Redemption rights? Founders don’t often think about “primary&# stock vs, “fully diluted&# stock in terms of voting rights. It sounded logical enough, so I moved on to the next point. Only later did I learn how it could be used to screw me. Sounds harmless enough.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

In addition, e-commerce and daily deals have been breaking all-time records with a rise sharp of redemptions on the mobile. According to Juniper Research, mobile coupon redemption values to exceed $43 billion globally by 2016 from $5.4 billion in 2011. That’s the problem that Israeli startup FootTraffic wants to solve.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

. “Tapping on technological advancements in mobile applications has worked favorably for DEAL.com.sg ,&# reveals Patrick Linden, co-founder and CEO for DEAL.com.sg , who adds that its iOS mobile application saw some 100,000 downloads since its August launch, and which even topped the “free app&# ranking on iTunes Singapore.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

This makes redemption quick and convenient, without the hassle of showing printed emails or other methods employed by traditional group-buying sites.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process.

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ithacaVC

JUNE 1, 2020

Andrew reprinted a memo in Dealbook today that Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, wrote to his firm’s employees over the weekend. He said, “We must discover the redemptive power of love. Terrible racist acts have stunned most of us over the last few weeks. If you have not already read the memo, please read it.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). If new investors get better rights in a future equity financings (such as registration rights, price-based anti-dilution, redemption rights, etc.), Redemption rights.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It is important for founders to understand that VC term sheets are usually deemed to be “non-binding” (other than perhaps a few provisions, such as the “no-shop” provision and legal fees and expenses). What Are the Key Issues for Founders? Fourth, founders should button-down all of the key issues in the term sheet.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2015

To help you become a savvy founder (and avoid these mistakes), we asked nine successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council to talk with us about the mistakes they’d made in the past, and to give a bit of advice on how others can avoid doing the same. Not having legal counsel.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2015

The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. While I have some visibility as a co-founder, I offer it up to David Cohen, David Brown, Mark Solon, and the rest of the Techstars leadership team to use however they want. The media wants hero stories. It also wants goat stories.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 22, 2011

p2Pkk0 cc: @jack “One by one, all the things founders dislike about raising money are going to get eliminated.” orDpNw Quora: “What are the common conditions of preferred shares in Silicon Valley with regard to redemption rights?” ” -Paul Graham bit.ly/prAYlf ” -Paul Graham bit.ly/prAYlf

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2010

The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation includes the typical provisions you might find in a VC deal, less (i) preferential dividends, (ii) redemption rights, and (iii) price based anti-dilution. the CEO) elected by the common via fiat in the Investors Rights Agreement. (2) 2) Series Seed Stock Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

My third story is about Failure and Redemption. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked. Eighteen months after arriving in Thailand, I was managing a group of 15 electronics technicians.

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Venture Chronicles

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Does not offer redemption rights to its investors. Investor/founder buyouts. It’s not uncommon for a VC to invest in a company and have a portion of the invested capital go to buying out founders and other investors. Is not leveraged and its portfolio companies may not borrow in connection with the fund’s investment.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 31, 2011

How should the founders divide the initial stock ownership? Not to mention pushing back hard on unreasonable terms, such as “exploding” term sheets or certain redemption rights. they usually play a much larger role in the businesses being started. They are often dealing with people with very limited or no business experience.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Where as most start-up founders start with the conviction that they know success looks like and [.] Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be. It’s very different than the traditional product development model.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 27, 2011

Indeed, whether a minority common stockholder is a founder, an advisor or even a friends/family investor, such stockholder will usually not be contractually granted any of the rights that are typically granted to preferred stockholders.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 1, 2010

The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation includes the typical provisions you might find in a VC deal, less (i) preferential dividends, (ii) redemption rights, and (iii) price based anti-dilution. the CEO) elected by the common via fiat in the Investors Rights Agreement. (2) 2) Series Seed Stock Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 14, 2012

But this constraint is at odds with the founders vision. In practice, you usually see redemptions go the other way. The other tradeoff is that Kevin’s deal comes with a contraint on what products the company can sell, only pillow case dresses and hair bows. The entrepreneur made the right decision. And most startups go south.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Next month, I’ll return , Jason Wang’s Going back to prison as the founder of my own startup , Kobie Fuller’s (Upfront) How a day in prison could give you a lesson on judgement , and Kara Nortman’s (Upfront) Spending a day in prison lead me on a path of radical self-improvement.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Despite having a better writer (Aaron Sorkin), a better director (Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle), and a much better cast (Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, and Seth Rogen, among others), “Steve Jobs” suffered by coming after too many other biopics about the enigmatic co-founder of Apple Computers. Straight Outta Compton.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year. You agree on a price with the Sponsor, but then cannot get shareholder approval or have too many redemptions. Door #1: The Structurally Broken IPO Process.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 13, 2009

In addition, post-financing transactions, particularly stock redemptions, that potentially could undermine qualified small business stock status should be carefully reviewed. Tags: Founders. The relevant provisions of the summary of the budget proposal related to qualified small business stock are below.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In a February 6th article in Business Insider , Allyson Shontell discovered that a mere four months after adding $150 million to a total of $330 million in invested capital, the founder and CEO disclosed to its employees that “we have spent $200 million and we have not proven out our business model.” We are in a risk bubble.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2016

by Leslie Licano, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Fifteen Communications. But more to the point is the idea of redemption when a mistake has been made. The only HBO series to increase viewership six years in a row, Game of Thrones has unequivocally outdone itself — and every other HBO series in between.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. But there was one fatal flaw.

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