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After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).
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That means that the likely have a minimum of $15 million in liquidationpreferences. It will usually be higher because the liquidationpreference has a dividend so if the deal is long in the tooth assume that the liquidationpreference might be $20-22 million. Take liquidationpreferences head on.
He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship.
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