Unless a start-up is raising at least $750K for an angel financing, it may not make sense from a practical standpoint for it to issue preferred stock. Indeed, preferred stock financing are complicated ...

Venture Capital: A Practice Guidebook for Capital-Seeking Business, Owners, Managers and Advisors is a complete book covering the basics of venture capital funding, including a overview of venture ...

According to the list of Top 20 Life Stressors, losing your job is in the top 10 events that cause people major stress and anxiety, right up there with death, divorce and going to jail. You may be ...

Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. According to the brand-ranking database Engagement DB, companies embracing social media grew revenues by 18 percent in the past 12 ...

The price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock that the venture capital investor is willing to pay is equal to the pre-money valuation of the company divided by the total number of shares ...

The allure to of a company-changing deal with a BDC is strong. Big companies make a number of seductive promises, including access to large markets, significant financial resources and vital public ...

Kiss of Death - Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs Agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are like DC Comic’s evil villainess, Poison Ivy. Both are seductive and alluring ...

I was stuck in traffic yesterday, which I didn’t really mind because I have a fun little yellow convertible, and I was thinking about Uber ($17 billion! – that’s the company’s valuation, not the price ...

"With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good." Really? I would think that with a name like Smucker's it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech. If "Smucker's" ...

Ivan Nikkhoo is an experienced entrepreneur, investment banker and VC focused on the life cycle of tech companies. He is a Managing Director at Siemer & Associates and an advisor to Siemer Ventures.

With slight modification, Cicero’s astute quote aptly applies to the entrepreneurial world: “Startup advice should be judged by results, not by intentions.” One way to accomplish this goal is to ...