Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Keep the valuations consistent with company progress.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 21, 2022

From how to develop your idea, to customer validation, investment, communication & marketing, governance, cap tables, due diligence, sales, are just some of the areas that as a founder you will need to navigate.

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Founder Cap Table Cofounder New Zealand 88

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 21, 2017

What we need here is government intervention. It’s also true that many of society’s deepest problems aren’t likely to be solved by for-profit companies. That’s because there’s no money in solving them (otherwise the market would have been solved already).

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San Francisco Cap Table Angel Investor Valuation 90

Haystack

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The opportunities for these new funds are endless.

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Cap Table Venture Capital Portfolio Pay to Play 147

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. Limited amount of existing debt and a clean cap table”. His description: “We announced a new $500 million fund in Q1 of 2019, in our 10th year.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

But by far the biggest issue is that the very essence of public markets (and what makes them “public”) is that the SEC mandates an enormous amount of transparency, including complete quarterly financial statements, complete publication of the company’s cap table including all significant shareholders, and so forth.

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Seed Stage Hockey Stick Cap Table Liquidation Preference 131

ithacaVC

APRIL 5, 2011

I am a huge fan of simple cap tables. A cap table is a written record (in Excel, for example) of who owns stock in your company. The company is at the pre-seed stage, and the outside investment would qualify the company for an additional grant from a government source (matching funds). Seems like a win-win.

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Common Stock Stock Cap Table Preferred Stock 45

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. government policy. Disclosure Policy. Demographics.

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Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

If you let your management style be governed totally by those serendipitous events, you’re not doing the best job of deciding what to decide. If you do eventually expose your company to those professionals, all your dumb shareholders will get crushed in the new cap table.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

But one of the benefits of ‘software eating the world’ is that there are a ton of amazing companies selling into huge traditional industries: agriculture, health care, government services, hospitality, and so on. I’d argue that these are generally less exposed to a tech chill and more exposed to a general economic slowdown.

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Valuation Cap Table Startup Later Stage 116

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Many industries are very difficult to penetrate from the outside, e.g. healthcare, education, government services, and more. We know it’s important to keep the cap table clean, and we want to focus on where/when we add value and then get out of the way. There’s a huge caveat to the above comments. Rock Health).

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

They can even add more value than an independent board member because they don’t have to deal with corporate governance. All our products Pitching Hacks , Cap Table , and Co-founder Interview. Or they raise your money for you. Or they bring you a handful of great employees. Learn more. Buy it here.

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Advisory Board Cap Table Vesting Equity 44

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub. 6 ]Ive omitted one source: government grants.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

You can no longer simply look at the cap table and estimate your return. The adjustment does not happen now, it will happen later. Dirty term sheets are a massive problem for two reasons. One is that they “unpack” or “explode” at some point in the future.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Brian Chesky is always trying to figure out how to put stock in the hands of his community and how to bring community input into the governance, because that's such an important part of the ethos of Airbnb. This is Out Of the Crisis.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction. Why would a founder or CEO want an investor on the cap table who was only interested in “paying attention” to the company if there is a large, free, one-day incentive? The founders, the CEO, the CFO, the executives, the employees, and the venture investors.

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Facebook tried to build a crypto-alliance with Libra, but that seems to have fell flat out of the gate; at the same time, the Chinese government counter-intuitively signaled their interest in using blockchain technologies in a centralized manner for state operations.

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China Startup Lock-up Period Cap Table 146

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

They want the government off their backs except when it comes to making sure no one builds affordable housing down the street from them. They forget that taxpayers funded the creation of the internet and contributed to pharmaceutical discoveries.

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Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 158