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Seed Stage Founders Undervalue Angels With Marketing & Comms Expertise

Hunter Walker

Why Bringing These Two Skillsets Onto Your Cap Table Early Is Worth It. In addition to our dollars, we are eager to help founders with the construction of their cap table, not just generically with the highest profile folks available, but more specifically where they might get some help along the way. Nor Do VCs.

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We Don’t Talk Enough About Money In Silicon Valley, Revisited

Hunter Walker

I never heard about giraffes after Google’s IPO, although reportedly one early engineer did buy a carnival-size ferris wheel. Those of us who’ve had access to the right hiring manager, or cap table, or referral network have already put ourselves in a position to capitalize, but the pie can be expanded.

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Not All Startup and Venture Experience is Equal #getoffmylawn

This is going to be BIG.

Others talked as if they were the ones doing the deals--even though they''re just the ones making the cap tables in Excel. Just because you sold your lost company for a nickel plus a modest amount per engineer doesn''t mean we should trumpet that as a qualification to be on a panel. Dear Analysts: No offense intended, btw.

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The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.