The Startup Lawyer
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Other incubators may want to set up an option pool. If so, the startup’s founders need to know this option pool lowers your pre-money valuation. Take a look at pictures and videos from previous demo days, if any, and see if they’ll help get your startup’s name out there.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So One reasonstartups prefer series A rounds is that theyre more prestigious.But if angel investors become more active and better known, theyllincreasingly be able to compete with VCs in brand. Ditto for PayPal.
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David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .
venturehacks.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Check out the video tour. As the VentureBeat Editor notes on the site: “Ask the Attorney is a new VentureBeat… read more→ Naval Ravikant : Angel investor, Venture Hacks author. We’re founders (Epinions), investors (Twitter), students (life), and advisors (billions). The Option Pool Shuffle.
venturehacks.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Convince him to work on yours part-time — he’ll drop his idea once yours gets traction. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.
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