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The Plain English Guide to Equity Financing

Hubspot Sales

What is Equity Financing? Equity financing is a type of funding that allows you to sell shares of your company to investors. In equity financing, investors might receive common shares, preferred shares, or the same voting rights and treatment as founders. But what does it really mean to land financing for your startup?

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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. Thanks to Simmons & Simmons for hosting the event at Citypoint. Delegates then chose to focus on finance, economics and pricing.

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How to boost sales strategy with a deal desk

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A deal desk is a team within a company responsible for managing and negotiating deals, contracts, quotes, and other sales documents. Manage non-standard deals There are deals that require more handling or negotiating than usual. Try now Automating communication and negotiation using digital tools. What if payment is delayed?

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Future Marketing and Business Development Manager: Connections, Collaboration, Context, Creativity, Cause and Continuous learning

Red Star Kim

For complex projects we must collaborate with those in other functional specialisms such as finance, technology, people and innovation. Others specialised in subjects such as events and internal communications. And in external agencies. Both those in leadership positions who are driving the firm forward.

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Selling in a downturn – Are your teams being trained with the proper tools for the job?

Mercuri International

Whereas before, companies might be adapting on a quarterly basis, recent events have demanded an acceleration of this process, requiring an even higher degree of agility. Whereas a typical ‘eventful’ year might present one game-changing event, 2020 is throwing up multiple challenges. No train, no gain. Key findings.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Venture Capitalists

Hubspot Sales

A venture capital funding is a financing event where the lead investor is a venture fund. The lead investor sets the terms of the round with the company and acts as the primary negotiator. They oversee the negotiations and formalities of the round like determining board structure and employee option pool availability.

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The Startup Founder's Guide to Cap Tables

Hubspot Sales

This "money-back" provision protects investors in the event of a sale at a lower valuation. Term sheet negotiation. Having a clear snapshot of your company's ownership structure enables you to run a what-if analysis on a financing round. Preferred stock typically can often be converted to a 1x payout of money invested.

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