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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Notes: In an IPO preferred share classes are converted into common stock, and liquidation preferences and accumulated but unpaid dividends essentially go away. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million.

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An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

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Examples of housekeeping include the following list, though not every item will appear every time: Finance: Cash out date, burn rate, 409A valuation, cap table, common/preferred stock dashboard. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.

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Should Apple Buy Hungary?

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increasing dividends or issuing preferred stock). More recently acquiring Quattro Wireless created the iAds mobile ad network and Siri was of course a technology acquired from SRI. Buying NeXT provided the foundation of what is now the desktop Mac OS plus brought Steve Jobs back to the Apple fold.

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Examples of good startup term sheets

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Greg Martin • 9:35am on Thursday For the ranges of negotiability and other considerations in the Preferred Stock Term Sheet, you may also want to review the following: [link] /bartsl. I pulled Brad's term sheet series together and converted it to a.PDF if anyone is interested. 281 people are following this question.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

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One of the panelists mentioned that they have gotten very valuation sensitive (nothing wrong with that) and like to purchase preferred stock rather than invest in convertible notes. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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As lawyer Scott Edward Walker wrote earlier this year, because of this “Convertible notes are ticking time bombs: if the maturity date is reached, and there hasn’t been a Series A round (triggering the automatic conversion of the notes into shares of preferred stock), there is the potential for disaster.” Enterprise.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t