Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I know because I’ve been there. year old boy and another one due in 1 months.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 7, 2012
Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. This time I’ll break down week four of this season. BACK 9 DIPS.
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ConversionXL
APRIL 23, 2013
The point of all of it is this: you need to know the rational thinking of your customer and you need to understand their sub-conscious, emotional decision making processes. You really need to understand how your product or service fits in the lives of your customers. This post of mine will give you some ideas how to do it.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 9, 2021
55-65-year-olds were the most drawn to historied and trusted branding, with almost twice as many participants preferring this option compared to innovative brand names. Men were found to have little to no preference in siding with trusted brand names compared to those that are innovative. They’ll become your customers.
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 25, 2016
That means much less blitzscaling (whatever the heck that ever was), and lots more heads-down quality thinking to build products that customers actually want and will eventually pay for. And so long as there’s a bigger fool out there focusing exclusively on scale often works out just fine.
Scott Edward Walker
NOVEMBER 26, 2017
The way the investor thinks about it is that, if you can’t figure out your way to network your way to [an investor],… then you’re unlikely to be able to network your way into hiring a great team, or network your way into selling your product to customers. (at www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEOR0AJsziE. v=NEOR0AJsziE.
Professor VC
JULY 25, 2013
I''m a strong believer in fairness (although my daughters may not agree) and investors and entrepreneurs working together as a team to create something valuable to all stakeholders (customers, employees, founders, investors). Their response was that we should be happy they didn''t ask for a participating preference on top of the seniority.
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