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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

.   At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference. Second a liquidation preference and a participation.   First , dividends.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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