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When: Tue March 02, 2010 7:00 pm
Organization: The Boston Entrepreneurs' Network
Location: Emerging Enterprise at Foley Hoag, 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
Speaker(s): Linda Smith (founder and principal at Ceres Technology Advisors, Inc.), Mark Haddad (Partner at Foley Hoag LLP.), Matthias Wagner (the co-founder of zthere (Cambridge), a mobile imaging collaboration startup), Moderator: John Ellis (founded the optical engineering company Optics For Hire (www.opticsforhire.com) in 2002).
Is your business worth what you think it is? …Really? Then why did you agree to that term sheet? When you sought start up funding did you consider the terms potential buyers of your business would require? Think the details like Convertible Debentures, full ratchet or weighted average, and anti-dilution are just legal mumbo jumbo that can be ignored? Well you need to think again. Term sheets and valuation are essential at the start of your business and the exit; they define in black and white what a business is really worth. We will have three experts (an attorney, an entrepreneur and an investment banker) provide their insights and lessons learned about term sheets and valuation strategies that work (and do not work) for the entrepreneur.