Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   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.   First , dividends.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. My post looks at this from the consultant/employee point of view. Lessons from a Failed Forecast.

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Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

They generally also get additional rights that common shareholders don’t get, such as anti-dilution protection, and liquidation preference (discussed further below). Liquidation preference. Whether that’s true or not depends in no small part on how the liquidation preference clause was negotiated with outside investors.

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Covenant Liquidation Preference Ratchet Dilution 60

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 23, 2013

Building good forecasting models against the backdrop of fast changing performance factors is no small task, and planning is 1/2 of the planning/controlling responsibility a team is responsible for, but typical boards end up spending a lot of time on the controlling part of the equation.

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Management Startup Liquidation Preference Dilution 66

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors.

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