Option Pool

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First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Tumblr Inc

Who Gets Rich in the Tumblr-Yahoo Deal

Tumblr’s $1.1 billion exit has minted a number of new millionaires—and made some rich folks even richer.Here’s who made what, according to PrivCo, which studies private companies. These are the revised figures corrected by PrivCo after initial numbers ... [Published BusinessWeek - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Tumblr Inc, Stock Option, Startup, Twitter Inc

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Better World Books

Secrets of a Successful Social Enterprise

u(Better World Books book drive box (Photo credit: carmichaellibrary) Better World Books, perhaps the preeminent poster child for how to start and run a growing healthy social enterprise, just turned 10 years old. With about 340 employees, revenues are ... [Published Forbes.com - May 04 2013]

Entities: Better World Books, Enterprise, David Murphy

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Toronto stock exchange

Golden Arrow arranges placement, lends funds to CEO

. will loan to Carlos Fernandez Mazzi, president and chief executive officer, sufficient funds for Mr. Fernandez to purchase 750,000 units of Golden Arrow, pursuant to a private placement, at the price of 30 cents per unit. Each unit will consist of one ... [Published Stockwatch - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Carlos Fernandez, Investor Relations, Private Placement, Option Pool, Toronto stock exchange

First reported Apr 07 2013 - Updated Apr 07 2013 - 2 reports

Considering Convertible Debt? Don't Sell Yourself Short

Editor’s note: Patricia Nakache is a general partner at Trinity Ventures where she invests in early stage social commerce and entertainment companies. Follow her on Twitter @pnakache . The prevailing wisdom among entrepreneurs these days is that ... [Published TechCrunch - Apr 07 2013]

Entities: Pre-Money, DILUTION, Venture Capital, Option Pool

First reported Mar 12 2013 - Updated Mar 12 2013 - 1 reports

Avivagen grants options for 8.48 million shares

Avivagen Inc., pursuant to the requirements of the TSX Venture Exchange, has granted options to purchase 8,487,763 common shares to its executive team, including the newly announced president and chief executive officer, employees, members of its board ... [Published Stockwatch - Mar 12 2013]

Entities: Stock Option, Jacques Brault, Option Pool

First reported Feb 22 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 1 reports

4 critical things to watch on your investment term sheet

You’ve been pitching your startup to investors for months, and, finally, you’ve got results: a term sheet (hopefully more than one) from an investor interested in funding you. This post is part 4 of our “Roadmap” guest series for entrepreneurs ... [Published Venturebeat - Feb 22 2013]

Entities: Term Sheet, Entrepreneur, Founder Vesting, Option Pool

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"Sure, companies went public or sold for staggering sums, but companies have been going public or selling out for generations without creating tens of thousands of millionaires along the way.The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U S is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees. Before companies like Fairchild and Hewlett-Packard began the practice fifty years ago, distributing stock options to anyone other than top management was virtually unheard of. But the engineering tradition that spawned Silicon Valley was much more egalitarian than traditional corporate culture."

Who Gets Rich in the Tumblr-Yahoo Deal [Published BusinessWeek - 17 hours ago]

Chris Clark , Neovasc CFO, commented, "We finished 2012 in a strong cash position with $5.8 million on hand.$ During the year we concluded a strategic transaction to divest our biological surgical patch business in order to concentrate on high margin applications of our tissue technologies, in particular the manufacture of transcatheter heart valves.$ This transaction freed up valuable manufacturing capacity while adding to our cash reserves. Subsequent to year-end, investors also exercised 1.9 million warrants priced at $1.25 , which added an additional $2.45 million to the company.$ We believe that these new funds, in conjunction with our already strong cash position and growing revenues from our biological tissue business, put us in an excellent position to move forward with our value-generating pipeline programs, without the need for external financing for the foreseeable future."

Neovasc Inc. reports financial results for 2012 year-end [Published Barchart - Apr 29 2013]

Jacques Brault, chairman of Avivagen, said: "Avivagen's employee stock option plan had been allocated a number of years ago, and the current option pool was at less than 1.5 per cent of the issued and outstanding shares. Had we not amended our plan to an industry standard level of 10 per cent, we would have been unable to recruit key new talent and had challenges in rewarding and retaining key executives and employees. Now that we have recruited a new president and CEO, and, based on the success of our first commercial product and first international distribution agreement with a reputable and large animal health company, we have the tools to align our team with the interests of shareholders, which is to focus on creating shareholder value."

Avivagen grants options for 8.48 million shares [Published Stockwatch - Mar 12 2013]

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