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Question: R.K. Maroon is a seed-stage web-oriented entertainment company with important intellectual property. RKM's founders, all technology experts in the relevant area, are anticipating a quick leap to dot-com fortune and believe that their unique intellectual property will allow them to achieve a $ 100,000,000 venture value in Year 3 with a one-time initial $2,000,000 in venture ?nancing.
The founders have organized RKM with 1,000,000 shares and are willing to "grant" venture investors a 100% return on their business plan projections.
a. What percent of ownership must be sold to grant" the 100% three-year return?
b. If the owners want to keep their 1,000,000 shares, how many new shares should they issue to the VCs
c. What would be the resulting ownership con?guration?
d. Suppose the venture investors do not approve the business plan predictions and want to price the deal assuming a second round in Year 2 of $8,000,000 with a 40% return I If the owners want to keep their 1,000,000 shares, how many new shares should they issue to the VCs for the second round of ?nancing? I What would be the new ownership con?guration?