Index

  • Accelerated vesting
  • Accounting
  • Accredited investors
  • Acquisition accounting
  • Acquisitions. See also Mergers
    • and convertible debt
  • Adverse change redemption
  • Advisers
  • AFRs (applicable federal rates)
  • Agency costs
  • Agreements, definitive
  • Alpha
  • Ambiguity
  • American Research and Development Corporation (AR&D)
  • Analysts
  • Anchoring
  • Angel investors
  • AngelList
  • Antidilution provision
  • Applicable federal rates (AFRs)
  • As-converted basis
  • Asset deals
  • Assignment clause
  • Associates
  • At-will employees
  • Automatic conversion
  • Automatic dividends
  • Backup plans
  • Bagley, Constance
  • Barter element
  • Basis of stock options
  • BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement)
  • Behavior, constraining
  • Bernthal, Brad
  • Betabrand
  • Board of directors
    • compensation
    • composition of
    • fiduciary responsibility for employees
    • process for electing members
  • Breakup fee
  • Bridge loans
  • Bully negotiating style
  • Burn rate
  • Business plan
  • Capital, investment
  • Capital call
  • Capital gains tax
  • Capitalization
  • Cap(italization) tables
  • Capped participation
  • Caps
  • Carried interest
  • Carry
  • Carve-outs
  • Cash flow
  • Cash-on-cash return
  • C Corp
  • CEOs
  • Change-of-control
  • Clawback
  • Cofounders
  • Cohen, David
  • Collaboration
  • Commitment period
  • Common stock
  • Common stock outstanding (CSO)
  • Communication
  • Compensation
  • Competition
  • Conditions precedent to financing clause
  • Conditions to close
  • Confidentiality
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Control
  • Conversion
    • automatic
    • and IPOs
    • mechanics
    • sale of the company
  • Conversion price adjustment
  • Convertible debt
    • alternative to
    • arguments for and against ...

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