YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2015

In today’s competitive global market, managers know that employees (including really valuable ones) are likely to change jobs every few years or so. Like it or not, employee mobility has just become a fact of life. ” The fear of an ex-employee sharing your vital secrets with her new employer is, indeed, a well-founded one.

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Employee Technical Review Ratchet NDA 100

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders. The investor may also ask for a participation in which the investors receive some additional multiple of their investment prior to distribution of proceeds to stockholders.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Other links: The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future is Now (HBR), Space Station Builds 3D-Printed Ratchet Wrench (NASA), Shapeways.com (3D printing marketplace). We’ve also used employees dressed in a banana suit to walk around the boardwalk and promote the stand. Tweet at us: @Bplans (include the hashtag #BCast).

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Business Plan Marketing Oregon Small Business 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

million kids, and 135,000 employees. And the urgency stems not from an agile competitor, a first-mover market, or a power-law distribution of reward, but rather from the need to achieve enough velocity to overcome the tremendous gravitational pull of business-as-usual. Our annual budget is $25 billion.

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Lean Startup Ratchet New York City 162

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

If, down the road, you decided to take on an additional investor, or sell new shares of the company at a discounted rate to employees or family and friends, then that investor’s total ownership percentage might fall below their 10 percent ownership. Liquidation preference. What’s the takeaway?

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Covenant Liquidation Preference Ratchet Dilution 60

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40