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Introducing the Cap Table and Hiring the CTO

Feld Thoughts

As Finance Fridays continues, we are introducing the concept of the Cap Table. This week they set out to create their cap table and hire a CTO. Rather, it gets recorded in a document called the Capitalization Table (or “Cap Table”), which shows the ownership stake each person or entity has in the business.

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The BSList - Busted Cap Table (No. 104)

This is going to be BIG.

But back to the cap table. Here’s why VC’s don’t actually care about your prior cap table in most circumstances. We want what we want and if we really want it, we don’t really care about what else is going on with the cap table. and they take a hefty chunk of the cap table to do it.

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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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The Pros and Cons of Rando Rich People Investing in Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

I would e-mail Paul and Rony from Indeed regularly with feature ideas and get super frustrated that they implemented zero of them—especially in the face of stiff competition from Simply Hired. What’s Simply Hired, you ask? Paul and Rony focused on doing one thing and doing it better than anyone else—returning great job search results.

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Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

Feld Thoughts

” Many companies have hired ahead of their growth rate because they had the cash to do so. “If you need to clean up your own cap table first – while very hard to do – it will make outside funding easier” Again, go read the post now – I’ll wait. It’s simply not true.

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Cap Table Clean Up

ithacaVC

When raising money from investors (angels or VC), it is critical to have a presentable and clean cap table. On a fully diluted pre-money basis, that would mean the option pool represents 14.5% (356,758/2,456,758) of the cap table. Often times a plug is used around 10%. times more equity than Founder X.

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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walker

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.