Questions tagged [start-up]
A startup company or startup or start-up is an entrepreneurial venture or a new business in the form of a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
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Calculating preferred share conversions to common using weighted average
I am trying to make an informed decision as to whether or not to invest in a private startup company by exercising vested options from a grant I obtained while working for the company as an employee.
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Does this stock options package sound good?
I got the following stock options offer:
"The stock options will be
granted as possibly feasible following the start of you employment.
The stock options will have a strike price determined by ...
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If my company is going to be acquired for $50m, how can I avoid high taxes? [closed]
Let’s say for example I have a company that is going to be acquired for $50m and I own half it as a cofounder.
How can I avoid a large tax hit?
I know someone who received $25m from an acquisition and ...
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Are banks willing to lend money to one-man APP startups?
I am one person building a social-media-ish APP. I am 2 years along. Let's say that it's 90% finished.
How do you get a bank to lend you money for this APP?
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Do I need a green card if I want to find an investor for my startup? [closed]
Should I either wait until I get my Green Card( maybe 6 months) or can I reach to investors with my EAD card if I have a complete mobile application ready to launch + a business plan for that?
PS: I ...
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Do investors have any copyrights on the application they invest on? [closed]
Considering I am the founder of Instagram, it means I have written 100% of the application code by myself, then found an investor and they put some money into the startup and got 30% of the new ...
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Are employee stock options worthless in a highly valuable company that never "exits"?
What happens to employee stock options and stocks in those rare cases where a start-up is wildly profitable -- but the founders never "exit"? That is, it never goes public or is acquired.
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How to convince the investors without actually revealing the idea in the first place? [closed]
Let's say I've developed an application and it's all done; nevertheless, it still needs supporting resources and a good marketing and all the other matters that are required for a success; but, I don'...
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As an investor of a business, how do you prevent the founder from holding back growth? [closed]
If you are an investor who owns 30% of a business and the founder owns 70%, how do you prevent a situation where the founder decides to always take profits and not reinvest them to grow the business? ...
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What is the best getting investment strategy? [closed]
Consider a person wants to create a giant company as big as Airbnb, Netflix, Coinbase, etc. And he has an idea that investors will love it.
This person also knows the computer programming and can ...
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How much are my shares worth in the startup I work for?
So I joined a startup last year. They gave me 50,000 options (ISO) with the exercise price of $0.4 per share. Currently I do not how many shares the company has in total, but in the print of the ...
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Pro Rata - Calculate the amount of shares to buy
A company gets incorporated with only 2 stakeholders:
1st stakeholder has 250 shares (a.k.a 33.33%)
2nd stakeholder has 500 shares (a.k.a 66.67%)
Price per share: 1$
On it's first financing round:
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Are software development and consulting services tax-exempted for a newly registered company in Ireland?
TL; DR: I am moving from an "auto-entrepreneur" situation in France to opening a business and I am looking for the best country between the UK and Ireland that could host my business in ...
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British citizen joining US startup as co-founder, tax considerations for stock agreements
I am joining a startup as a co-founder which is incorporated in the US. I am a British citizen (not a US citizen) and will work from the UK, whereas my co-founders will be working from the US.
As part ...
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If I raised X dollars of venture capital for my startup business, is that X dollar my personal money now? [duplicate]
If I sell a portion of my startup business to a venture capitalist for X dollars for the purpose of raising funds, is that X dollars my own personal money that I can do whatever I want with? Or am i ...