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Carrots And Sticks: How Vcs Induce Entrepreneurial Teams To Sell Startups, Brian J. Broughman, Jesse M. Fried Jan 2013

Carrots And Sticks: How Vcs Induce Entrepreneurial Teams To Sell Startups, Brian J. Broughman, Jesse M. Fried

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Venture capitalists (VCs) usually exit their investments in a startup via a trade sale. But the entrepreneurial team – the startup’s founder, other executives, and common shareholders – may resist a trade sale. Such resistance is likely to be particularly intense when the sale price is low relative to VCs’ liquidation preferences. Using a hand-collected dataset of Silicon Valley firms, we investigate how VCs overcome such resistance. We find, in our sample, that VCs give bribes (carrots) to the entrepreneurial team in 45% of trade sales; in these sales, carrots total an average of 9% of deal value. The overt …


Owning Stock While Making Law: An Agency Problem And A Fiduciary Solution, Donna M. Nagy Jan 2013

Owning Stock While Making Law: An Agency Problem And A Fiduciary Solution, Donna M. Nagy

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Empirical Research And The Shareholder Derivative Suit: Toward A Better-Informed Debate, Bryant G. Garth, Ilene H. Nagel, Sheldon J. Plager Jan 1985

Empirical Research And The Shareholder Derivative Suit: Toward A Better-Informed Debate, Bryant G. Garth, Ilene H. Nagel, Sheldon J. Plager

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Fair Dealing Comes Of Age In The Regulation Of Going Private Transactions, Carole Silver Jan 1984

Fair Dealing Comes Of Age In The Regulation Of Going Private Transactions, Carole Silver

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