I’ve been thinking about the criminal justice system ever since: how unjust the system is to so many, how prisons mete out punishment and yet often fail to cultivate rehabilitation, the philosophical basis for believing in redemption and second chances, among other topics. MORE
MID-WEEK METAL SLUDGE: Devoid of Redemption by Pallbearer - By most accounts, this seems to be consensus metal album of the year. Foreigner is the track that gets the most play, but I like Devoid of Redemption as the most distinctive tune on the album. Pallbearer Devoid of Redemption Sorrow and Extinction doom metal metalThe caveat is that that opinion only seems to held by music critics of the hipster variety. MORE
Chances are good that you''ll never screw up as badly as this, but we all fail sometimes. Here are the most important things to learn, so you can recover and rebuild next time you''re down. A little over a decade ago, John Rusnak''s world spiraled out of control. MORE
The NVCA model term sheet includes a typical Redemption Rights provision entitling investors to require the company to repurchase all of the outstanding shares of stock held by the investors at a certain point in the future (typically five years from the date of a Series A financing, give or take a year or two). The redemption price is typically the original price paid by the investors plus any accrued and unpaid dividends. MORE
Dropbox previously acquihired Endorse , a team that was working on receipt-based coupon redemption and market intelligence. I want to try Jet , the new commerce site which promises to be even cheaper than Amazon. What prevents me? MORE
Violence followed by confession leads to redemption right? Telling the truth conjures images of cherry trees and axes. In business the truth can be elusive, even fungible. MORE
COVER FRIDAY: Redemption Song performed by Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - I am getting all ballady as the week draws to a close. So here is a cover of one of my favorites ballads, the Bob Marley classic Redemption Song. Redemption Song Joe Strummer The Mescaleros Streetcore acoustic ballad Cover Friday folk That’s alright as you might just be hung over from yesterday’s holiday festivities. MORE
orDpNw Quora: “What are the common conditions of preferred shares in Silicon Valley with regard to redemption rights?” Twitter Highlights bubble data founders Paul Graham raising money redemption rights silicon valley startup VCs Warren BuffettI’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. MORE
The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. I love the phrase vanishing mediary. This is what I aspire to be. It’s the opposite of a visible intermediary. In our ego-fueled world, many people want to be front and center. Leaders are told to lead from the front, even if all they do is get up on a white horse and exit stage left as soon as the battle starts. MORE
Observation 2: Spending beyond face value at redemption is not predictive of profitability. Observation 3: A larger face value & redemption duration helps attract new customers but the discount does not. The number of daily deal sites is growing at an amazing rate. MORE
North Carolina heads to the Final Four MORE
Redemption at Investor's Option: No. By Justin Byers, Lead Business Intelligence Analyst Companies involved in providing smart grid solutions continue to get the attention from investors. Ice Energy, Inc. MORE
A song about redemption, it might possibly be the best song he has ever written: There’s joy for the morning. Music Christian Come As You Are Crowder David Crowder music Neon Steeple redemption Worship Sunday Come As You Are. WORSHIP SUNDAY: Come As You Are by Crowder – I has been some time since my last Worship Sunday post. I suppose I had been feeling rather uninspired by the state of worship music lately, much of it sounding very much the same. MORE
I don’t play … Read the rest of this entry » The post What Tennis Player Stanislas Wawrinka Story Of Redemption Can Teach Entrepreneurs About Perseverance appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. I love January. MORE
Get busy living, or get busy dying” – Shawshank Redemption Building great engineering teams is difficult, but it is also increasingly important as the world in which we live is more than ever driven by software. MORE
Yet, because they did not focus on the normal steps that lead up to an IPO, they are ill prepared for this singular redemptive path. [An edited version of the following blog post originally appeared in a modified form in the pages of the weekend edition of the Financial Times last Saturday. ]. MORE
Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that they hardly recognize. Shaka Senghor is one of those people, imprisoned at age 19 for second-degree murder and released almost two decades later … book launches MORE
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 Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. In other words, a way to reach a bunch of location based apps at scale via API and paying only for those that convert. MORE
So it was a bit of a change when they recorded a whole album of traditional hymns, but the resulting Redemption Songs album sounds fresh, giving new life to many of the old standards. Jars of Clay I''ll Fly Away Redemption Songs Christian hymn Worship Sunday Albert Brumley gospel WORSHIP SUNDAY: I’ll Fly Away by Jars of Clay - I was thinking of continuing along the heavier side of the music spectrum as in the past few Worship Sundays. MORE
I then signed off on an ugly redemption clause without analyzing the waterfall in an average exit scenario. When raising your first round of capital, there are a few common mistakes many entrepreneurs make. MORE
8. Redemption Rights. 1. Overview. 2. Nature of a Term Sheet and Summary of Offering Terms. 3. Dividends. 4. Liquidation Preference. 5. Voting Rights and Protective Provisions. 6. Conversion and Anti-dilution. 7. Pay-to-Play. 9. Stock Purchase Agreement. 10. Registration Rights. 11. Management Rights and Investor Director Approval. 12. Right to Maintain Proportionate Ownership (a/k/a Preemptive Rights). 13. Misc. MORE
Moreover, given venture investments are illiquid, redemption and getting your money back is much, much harder than in the hedge fund asset class. So, in order to pull of an emerging manager strategy, one would need to be able to identify talent independent of cash on cash returns and solve the redemption problem. Moreover, with the rise of secondary markets and innovations that I can only imagine exist, the liquidity/redemption issue seems workable as well. MORE
Brands can benefit most from digital coupon redemption experiences that are automatic. According to John Caron, CMO at Linkable Networks, “Marketers who consider invisible redemption (card-linked) will win the race to scale digital couponing.”. MORE
I was reminded of the wonderful quote from Shawshank Redemption where the main character says to "Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'!" . . Well, it isn't much different in the business world. MORE
Through process and example, great leaders help transgressors find a path to redemption. You can be smart, ambitious and talented, but until you master this ability you will never rise to the top. There are many qualities necessary in a successful leader. MORE
But redemptions across the web did not yield the results the company was looking for, so it decided make the offer through its Facebook page only. Not only did Facebook fans buy in, but they "shared" the offer on their own Facebook pages, and redemptions spiked. MORE
North Carolina heads to the Final Four MORE
Their anger and fear is increasing the uncertainty we’re suffering from which is causing more redemptions, which is, in turn, increasing the anger and fear, and I could make a similar argument about sterling’s depreciation. I was as surprised and disappointed as most Londoners after we voted to leave Europe last Thursday but I have been shocked by the depth of everyone’s misery since. Here’s what I think: We are in for a prolonged period of increased uncertainty. MORE
A month ago Mark Suster (Upfront) and I hosted 75 colleagues for a full day at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County – also known as Lancaster. MORE
Redemption. Now when I listen to entrepreneurs who’ve cratered a company, I listen for their stories of failure and redemption. Six stages of failure and redemption. “What’s gone and what’s past help. Should be past grief.” MORE
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) AP) — Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera says the Seattle Seahawks are starting to feel a little like a division opponent MORE
It’s the redemption after a night of excess, followed by the joy of the next day when your system is recalibrated. I spent the day yesterday with Seth, Ryan, and Jason at our quarterly offsite. We finished, as is our tradition, with dinner at Frasca, which involved a lot of wine. I rarely drink wine anymore as I never feel good the next day (I’ve switched to mostly drinking scotch.) MORE
Redemption. Now when I listen to entrepreneurs who’ve cratered a company, I listen for their stories of failure and redemption. Six stages of failure and redemption. “What’s gone and what’s past help. Should be past grief.” MORE
Redemption Song by Bob Marley & The Wailers - The week before I posted one of my favorite covers of this classic song, but there is nothing like the original and nothing like Bob Marley. Thoughts of mortality weave their way through many of the songs, especially on Redemption Song. Bob Marley The Wailers Redemption Song Uprising reggae folk acoustic ballad freedom MORE
It's a new year filled with fresh starts and beginnings, but for some brands 2017 is just another shot at redemption MORE
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Without much differentiation between programs, consumers are demanding that their programs offer an increasingly cash-like redemption process. Marketers are responding by offering more variety in redemption options, and simplifying those with cash or near-cash rewards. MORE
A song about redemption, it might possibly be the best song he has ever written: There’s joy for the morning O sinner, be still Earth has no sorrow That Heaven can’t heal. Crowder Come As You Are Neon Steeple Worship Sunday Christian redemption David Crowder WORSHIP SUNDAY: Come As You Are by Crowder - I has been some time since my last Worship Sunday post. I suppose I had been feeling rather uninspired by the state of worship music lately, much of it sounding very much the same. MORE
Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption, by Claire Diaz-Ortiz and Samuel Ikua Gachagua. They''re great. And they''ll help you become greater. I promise they''re all good: 1. Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter, by Henry Evans and Colm Foster. MORE
Here are the issues I have addressed to date: common mistakes dealing with VC’s valuation liquidation preferences stock options exploding term sheets and no-shop provisions anti-dilution provisions dividends Board control protective provisions drag-along provisions pay-to-play and pull-up provisions conversion rights In today’s post, I examine the redemption rights of investors. Redemption Rights What Are Redemption Rights? What Does a Redemption Rights Provision Look Like? MORE
According to Borrell Associates, mobile coupons get 10 times the redemption rate of traditional coupons. I have to admit, I'm not a pioneer by any stretch when it comes to most new technologies. I was the last of my friends to get a cell phone. MORE
This chapter covers those terms, which include dividends, redemption rights, conditions precedent to financing, information rights, registration rights, right of first refusal, voting rights, restriction on sales, proprietary information and inventions agreement, co-sale agreement, founders’ activities, initial public offering shares purchase, no-shop agreement, indemnification, and assignment. In this chapter we cover the non-economic and non-control terms in the term sheet. MORE
Redemption Related Topics Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Redemption. Now when I listen to entrepreneurs who’ve cratered a company, I listen for their stories of failure and redemption. Six stages of failure and redemption. “What’s gone and what’s past help. Should be past grief.”
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 24, 2014
I don’t play … Read the rest of this entry » The post What Tennis Player Stanislas Wawrinka Story Of Redemption Can Teach Entrepreneurs About Perseverance appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. I love January.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
The post Redemption Through Entreprenership appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall The Entrepreneurial Mind : David Harris shares his incredible story of how he transitioned from prison to being a successful entrepreneur. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
Chances are good that you''ll never screw up as badly as this, but we all fail sometimes. Here are the most important things to learn, so you can recover and rebuild next time you''re down. A little over a decade ago, John Rusnak''s world spiraled out of control.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Redemption. Now when I listen to entrepreneurs who’ve cratered a company, I listen for their stories of failure and redemption. Six stages of failure and redemption. “What’s gone and what’s past help. Should be past grief.”
Scott Edward Walker
JULY 7, 2011
Here are the issues I have addressed to date: common mistakes dealing with VC’s valuation liquidation preferences stock options exploding term sheets and no-shop provisions anti-dilution provisions dividends Board control protective provisions drag-along provisions pay-to-play and pull-up provisions conversion rights In today’s post, I examine the redemption rights of investors. Redemption Rights What Are Redemption Rights? What Does a Redemption Rights Provision Look Like?
Mark Birch
JULY 5, 2013
COVER FRIDAY: Redemption Song performed by Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - I am getting all ballady as the week draws to a close. So here is a cover of one of my favorites ballads, the Bob Marley classic Redemption Song. Redemption Song Joe Strummer The Mescaleros Streetcore acoustic ballad Cover Friday folk That’s alright as you might just be hung over from yesterday’s holiday festivities.
Mark Birch
JULY 13, 2013
Redemption Song by Bob Marley & The Wailers - The week before I posted one of my favorite covers of this classic song, but there is nothing like the original and nothing like Bob Marley. Thoughts of mortality weave their way through many of the songs, especially on Redemption Song. Bob Marley The Wailers Redemption Song Uprising reggae folk acoustic ballad freedom
Mark Birch
DECEMBER 12, 2012
MID-WEEK METAL SLUDGE: Devoid of Redemption by Pallbearer - By most accounts, this seems to be consensus metal album of the year. Foreigner is the track that gets the most play, but I like Devoid of Redemption as the most distinctive tune on the album. Pallbearer Devoid of Redemption Sorrow and Extinction doom metal metalThe caveat is that that opinion only seems to held by music critics of the hipster variety.
VC Ready Blog
JULY 13, 2010
The NVCA model term sheet includes a typical Redemption Rights provision entitling investors to require the company to repurchase all of the outstanding shares of stock held by the investors at a certain point in the future (typically five years from the date of a Series A financing, give or take a year or two). The redemption price is typically the original price paid by the investors plus any accrued and unpaid dividends.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
JANUARY 16, 2016
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) AP) — Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera says the Seattle Seahawks are starting to feel a little like a division opponent
The Next Web
MARCH 25, 2014
Get busy living, or get busy dying” – Shawshank Redemption Building great engineering teams is difficult, but it is also increasingly important as the world in which we live is more than ever driven by software.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 18, 2016
Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that they hardly recognize. Shaka Senghor is one of those people, imprisoned at age 19 for second-degree murder and released almost two decades later … book launches
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Violence followed by confession leads to redemption right? Telling the truth conjures images of cherry trees and axes. In business the truth can be elusive, even fungible.
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 Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. In other words, a way to reach a bunch of location based apps at scale via API and paying only for those that convert.
Up and Running
AUGUST 11, 2016
Brands can benefit most from digital coupon redemption experiences that are automatic. According to John Caron, CMO at Linkable Networks, “Marketers who consider invisible redemption (card-linked) will win the race to scale digital couponing.”.
Will Price
AUGUST 23, 2011
Moreover, given venture investments are illiquid, redemption and getting your money back is much, much harder than in the hedge fund asset class. So, in order to pull of an emerging manager strategy, one would need to be able to identify talent independent of cash on cash returns and solve the redemption problem. Moreover, with the rise of secondary markets and innovations that I can only imagine exist, the liquidity/redemption issue seems workable as well.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog
OCTOBER 29, 2016
I’ve been thinking about the criminal justice system ever since: how unjust the system is to so many, how prisons mete out punishment and yet often fail to cultivate rehabilitation, the philosophical basis for believing in redemption and second chances, among other topics.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 20, 2015
The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. I love the phrase vanishing mediary. This is what I aspire to be. It’s the opposite of a visible intermediary. In our ego-fueled world, many people want to be front and center. Leaders are told to lead from the front, even if all they do is get up on a white horse and exit stage left as soon as the battle starts.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 30, 2015
I then signed off on an ugly redemption clause without analyzing the waterfall in an average exit scenario. When raising your first round of capital, there are a few common mistakes many entrepreneurs make.
Mark Birch
OCTOBER 19, 2014
A song about redemption, it might possibly be the best song he has ever written: There’s joy for the morning. Music Christian Come As You Are Crowder David Crowder music Neon Steeple redemption Worship Sunday Come As You Are. WORSHIP SUNDAY: Come As You Are by Crowder – I has been some time since my last Worship Sunday post. I suppose I had been feeling rather uninspired by the state of worship music lately, much of it sounding very much the same.
Mark Birch
OCTOBER 19, 2014
A song about redemption, it might possibly be the best song he has ever written: There’s joy for the morning O sinner, be still Earth has no sorrow That Heaven can’t heal. Crowder Come As You Are Neon Steeple Worship Sunday Christian redemption David Crowder WORSHIP SUNDAY: Come As You Are by Crowder - I has been some time since my last Worship Sunday post. I suppose I had been feeling rather uninspired by the state of worship music lately, much of it sounding very much the same.
Hunter Walker
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Dropbox previously acquihired Endorse , a team that was working on receipt-based coupon redemption and market intelligence. I want to try Jet , the new commerce site which promises to be even cheaper than Amazon. What prevents me?
Babbling VC
MAY 4, 2011
I was reminded of the wonderful quote from Shawshank Redemption where the main character says to "Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'!" . . Well, it isn't much different in the business world.
Growthink Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
According to Borrell Associates, mobile coupons get 10 times the redemption rate of traditional coupons. I have to admit, I'm not a pioneer by any stretch when it comes to most new technologies. I was the last of my friends to get a cell phone.
VC Ready Blog
AUGUST 24, 2010
8. Redemption Rights. 1. Overview. 2. Nature of a Term Sheet and Summary of Offering Terms. 3. Dividends. 4. Liquidation Preference. 5. Voting Rights and Protective Provisions. 6. Conversion and Anti-dilution. 7. Pay-to-Play. 9. Stock Purchase Agreement. 10. Registration Rights. 11. Management Rights and Investor Director Approval. 12. Right to Maintain Proportionate Ownership (a/k/a Preemptive Rights). 13. Misc.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 3, 2011
Observation 2: Spending beyond face value at redemption is not predictive of profitability. Observation 3: A larger face value & redemption duration helps attract new customers but the discount does not. The number of daily deal sites is growing at an amazing rate.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
A month ago Mark Suster (Upfront) and I hosted 75 colleagues for a full day at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County – also known as Lancaster.
Mark Birch
OCTOBER 20, 2013
So it was a bit of a change when they recorded a whole album of traditional hymns, but the resulting Redemption Songs album sounds fresh, giving new life to many of the old standards. Jars of Clay I''ll Fly Away Redemption Songs Christian hymn Worship Sunday Albert Brumley gospel WORSHIP SUNDAY: I’ll Fly Away by Jars of Clay - I was thinking of continuing along the heavier side of the music spectrum as in the past few Worship Sundays.
Inc Startups
APRIL 11, 2014
Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption, by Claire Diaz-Ortiz and Samuel Ikua Gachagua. They''re great. And they''ll help you become greater. I promise they''re all good: 1. Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter, by Henry Evans and Colm Foster.
Ask The VC
AUGUST 2, 2011
This chapter covers those terms, which include dividends, redemption rights, conditions precedent to financing, information rights, registration rights, right of first refusal, voting rights, restriction on sales, proprietary information and inventions agreement, co-sale agreement, founders’ activities, initial public offering shares purchase, no-shop agreement, indemnification, and assignment. In this chapter we cover the non-economic and non-control terms in the term sheet.
Inc Startups
JUNE 10, 2013
But redemptions across the web did not yield the results the company was looking for, so it decided make the offer through its Facebook page only. Not only did Facebook fans buy in, but they "shared" the offer on their own Facebook pages, and redemptions spiked.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Without much differentiation between programs, consumers are demanding that their programs offer an increasingly cash-like redemption process. Marketers are responding by offering more variety in redemption options, and simplifying those with cash or near-cash rewards.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 24, 2016
It’s the redemption after a night of excess, followed by the joy of the next day when your system is recalibrated. I spent the day yesterday with Seth, Ryan, and Jason at our quarterly offsite. We finished, as is our tradition, with dinner at Frasca, which involved a lot of wine. I rarely drink wine anymore as I never feel good the next day (I’ve switched to mostly drinking scotch.)
The Equity Kicker
JULY 5, 2016
Their anger and fear is increasing the uncertainty we’re suffering from which is causing more redemptions, which is, in turn, increasing the anger and fear, and I could make a similar argument about sterling’s depreciation. I was as surprised and disappointed as most Londoners after we voted to leave Europe last Thursday but I have been shocked by the depth of everyone’s misery since. Here’s what I think: We are in for a prolonged period of increased uncertainty.
Inc Startups
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Through process and example, great leaders help transgressors find a path to redemption. You can be smart, ambitious and talented, but until you master this ability you will never rise to the top. There are many qualities necessary in a successful leader.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Yet, because they did not focus on the normal steps that lead up to an IPO, they are ill prepared for this singular redemptive path. [An edited version of the following blog post originally appeared in a modified form in the pages of the weekend edition of the Financial Times last Saturday. ].
Recent Buzzes - VC Experts, Inc.
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Redemption at Investor's Option: No. By Justin Byers, Lead Business Intelligence Analyst Companies involved in providing smart grid solutions continue to get the attention from investors. Ice Energy, Inc.
Scott Edward Walker
AUGUST 22, 2011
orDpNw Quora: “What are the common conditions of preferred shares in Silicon Valley with regard to redemption rights?” Twitter Highlights bubble data founders Paul Graham raising money redemption rights silicon valley startup VCs Warren BuffettI’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues.
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