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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

In the tech startup context, you’ll typically choose between a Corporation and a Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Stocks are issued at the time the company is formed, and more can be issued over time. You can control the power of your company’s stock by issuing different classes. Verdict : LLC.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet.

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How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

We’ll review some new language and concepts in this process, but once you’re done, you may never need to think about this stuff again. . Having these experienced brains reviewing your business plan can help ensure you don’t waste time and money on what is really a cool hobby or rewarding social venture masquerading as a great business idea.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. How To Think About The Future.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. And, the very last section— the review section — is really just a list of milestones you create that prompt you to review and revise your plan. Your forecast would have been for nothing.

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What type of entity should I form?

Startup Company Lawyer

Almost all technology startup companies that I work with are C corps. Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. However, such flexibility is countered by increased compliance costs due to the application of complex partnership tax rules that also apply to LLCs.

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

Tim Keane

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. Second a liquidation preference and a participation. A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders.