Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Information rights. The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. Co-sale rights. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only.

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Gust

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In my own portfolio I have companies that are generally perceived to be extremely successful with high profile customers and lots of sales…but they just happen to have a liquidation preference ladder of $25 million!

Seed Stage 131

Seed Stage Hockey Stick Cap Table Liquidation Preference 131

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Access rights to operational information. All investors have information rights which are detailed in the shareholders rights agreement. These are usually extrapolated to mean they expect you to share key operational data, such as the sales pipeline, vendor discussions, and quality issues, at any time.

Advisory Board 241

Advisory Board Entrepreneur Venture Capital Angel Investor 241

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If your business is growing and you’ve made a ton of sales, it might look on paper like everything is great. Put your contact information right on your invoice. When businesses have trouble getting their customers to pay invoices on time, it can really affect a business’s cash flow, and even their ability to survive.

Customer 101

Customer Due Diligence Curation B2B 101

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2013

Also, never copy and paste product information right from the manufacturer’s site. In the end, buyers will be feel more secure buying from a no-hassles seller—and this will almost certainly increase your sales, even at your higher price points, Simpson adds. ” 2. Picture success, many times over.

Search 190

Search Forecast Boston Engineer 190

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Break Through The Noise by Tim Staples is on sale now wherever books are sold. John Jantsch: But, should the sales people, the technicians, the marketing people, I mean should everybody be doing it or is there a sort of proper sequence in your opinion? does that have a measurable sort of percentage of impact of sales?

Software Review 71

Software Review Reputation Small Business Aggregator 71

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Access rights to operational information. All investors have information rights which are detailed in the shareholders rights agreement. These are usually extrapolated to mean they expect you to share key operational data, such as the sales pipeline, vendor discussions, and quality issues, at any time.

Advisory Board 231

Advisory Board Entrepreneur Venture Capital Angel Investor 231

Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

For example, the Series Seed documents contain limited protective provisions, a right of first offer on future financings, a board seat, and information rights. I’m not sure that founders really prefer to do convertible debt in order to avoid giving away these rights.

Convertible Security 73

Convertible Security Equity Security Preferred Stock 73

ConversionXL

MAY 20, 2014

The best way to get this information is to create a feedback loop that collects information right after they sign up, but before the course begins, so they’re fresh in the “I’m going to solve my problem” mindset.

Conversion 115

Conversion Stock Technical Review Design 115

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2015

If you’re asking for personal information right off the bat, it would feel disruptive to the form respondent if you asked for more personal information following the address fields, for instance. But there’s an art to creating flow that works. The tiniest things can derail someone from completing a form.

Chad 100

Chad San Francisco Restful Matching 100

Startup Company Lawyer

JANUARY 31, 2011

The Series AA has a 1x non-participating liquidation preference, weighted-average anti-dilution, basic protective provisions (adverse changes to the Series AA, number of shares of Series AA, or merger/asset sale), right to maintain proportionate ownership, ROFR/Co-Sale rights and basic information rights.

Preferred Stock 60

Preferred Stock Liquidation Preference IPO Common Stock 60

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Meanwhile, individuals and smaller companies emailed by the hundreds to say that they wanted the features of custom channels, but the sales model—arranged like a media buy—didn’t make sense to them. “We don’t give you all this Pro plan information right away when you join SlideShare.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 27, 2010

Less than two weeks later, that same article became a 100 plus page e-book, professionally packaged and available for sale online as a digital product at LuLu.com. They have to want the information, and they have to want it now. This means myself and the rest of the vertigo sufferers are not really that desperate for your information.

Audience 89

Audience Internet Restful Demand 89

K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

It is true that most notes are lighter when it comes to rights and protective provisions for the investors — in fact with most notes there is no Board put into place, no information rights, no pro-rata rights, etc. Every first time founder needs to learn what it means to manage a board. Why would you do that!?

Pre-Money Valuation 132

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Equity Liquidation Preference 132