Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 23, 2014

There are also integrated service providers and a collaborative environment of founders working toward the common goal of a liquidity event. Also, success likes company!

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Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 47

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate. Smaller liquidity events can still be valuable to a fund (very dependent upon size, stage and ownership percentage), but if you’re in the venture business, you’re playing into some variation of the ‘swing for the fences’ mentality.

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Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 98

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

I found myself in such a situation upon a sale of my computer software company. If there have never been outside investors to organize such an option program, many CEOs never get around to creating a system for rewarding employees in a sale.

Stock Options 192

Stock Options Stock Distribution Programming 192

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 13, 2013

Enacting a liquidity event. some only invest in software firms), so you need to make sure your list only includes VCs that are interested in your type of venture. Here's how VCs earn returns for their investors: 1. Finding high growth companies 2. Making investments in them at favorable terms 3. Guiding and nurturing them 4.

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Venture Capital Angel Investor Liquidity Event Term Sheet 92

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. But they occur often enough to watch for and take advantage of if ready to make the run for a liquidity event. Over a million of these gamers clicked to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community.

Pre-Money Valuation 48

Pre-Money Valuation Sales Liquidity Event Valuation 48

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

VCs earn returns for their investors by finding high growth companies, making investments in them at favorable terms, guiding and nurturing them, and enacting a liquidity event (e.g., some only invest in software firms), so you need to make sure your list only includes VCs that are interested in your type of venture.

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Venture Capital Liquidity Event Initial Public Offering Term Sheet 114

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I just helped an entrepreneur to consider reorganizing his young business from being a value-added reseller into a software and consulting company. It could then charge for setting up, integrating, and training the company’s software, all because its customers would not know how to do any of these important tasks.

Bankruptcy 62

Bankruptcy Early Stage Matching Software 62

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. But they occur often enough to watch for and take advantage of if ready to make the run for a liquidity event. Over a million of these came to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community.

Liquidity Event 59

Liquidity Event Pre-Money Valuation Sales Valuation 59

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, WSGR’s Series A documents can be created using the document automation software behind the WSGR term sheet generator. I think I’ve only come across the NVCA forms a couple of times, and both times were on deals with Boston-based company counsel, where use of the NVCA documents is more widespread.

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

But you also can’t run the company forever, since investors need a liquidity event. Ali Hamed observes that “software companies are blessed with high margins that allow them to payback expensive capital. “When you raise early stage VC, you can’t sell early because the VCs won’t agree to it.

Revenue 60

Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

With annual healthcare expenditures for conditions that either have an underlying cellular degeneration or damage component, now surpassing $7 trillion globally, Bioquark’s platform makes the company an attractive candidate for high-value strategic transactions and liquidity events for investors. Thanks to Ira S.

Entrepreneur 76

Entrepreneur Social Media Liquidity Event Private Equity 76

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A convertible note is like a loan, but this amount can be converted into company equity later on, usually during a liquidation event, like the acquisition of the company. Using software. Moreover, this is one reason where cap table software comes in handy and is preferred over the traditional excel cap table.

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Cap Table Pre-Money Valuation Stock Options Option Pool 112

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Now he wanted to go off start his own company. But I wonder if the success is due to or in spite of VCs.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2011

I found myself in such a situation upon a sale of my computer software company. If there has never been outside investors to organize such an option program, many CEOs never get around to creating a system for rewarding employees in a sale. .

Stock Options 48

Stock Options Stock Distribution Programming 48

Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Cap tables can play an essential role in scenario modeling ; particularly in waterfall analyses, using a series of assumptions to model shareholder payouts in a variety of liquidity events. Some startups prepare waterfalls before entering into seed or series funding to model hypothetical liquidity events for potential investors.

Cap Table 40

Cap Table Liquidation Preference Dilution Liquidity Event 40

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The potential buyer was a hardware company, aware that margins were decreasing and that software companies, once considered mere vehicles to help sell hardware, were now becoming the central component in a sale, mostly because hardware was fast becoming a commodity as prices dropped. Negotiating with an emotional buyer.

Intellectual Property 240

Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Acquisition Forecast 240

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Here are some "average" guidelines for equity percentages at a liquidity event. Or, even better, considering the entire software industry history, ask your ulitmate boss at Microsoft what he thinks about your post. 5% Managers -.25% 25% Individuals -.05 05 Now, lets do the math for a company that has 100 employees.

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Equity Employee Dilution Valuation 40

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. It is true however, that most of what goes on today involves software, and most of the people that write it are absolutely anonymous. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The potential buyer was a hardware company, well aware that margins were decreasing and that software companies, once considered mere vehicles to help sell hardware, were now becoming the central component in a sale, mostly because hardware was fast becoming a commodity as prices dropped.

Intellectual Property 88

Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Acquisition Forecast 88

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. Years later I’ve realized that the single most important factor to a product’s success is not the founders, not the marketing effort, and certainly not the software itself. “That’s ridiculous!&#

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