David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

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. I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue. Keep the valuations consistent with company progress.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. For example, without a clear vehicle (a company) to contribute intellectual property into, a founder who walks away may mean that the future company won’t own its own IP. An email would do. The FastIgnite one is two pages.

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Founder Vesting Agile Startup 44

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

When I mention this at technology gatherings where everyone in the room is bullish about the abundance of startup opportunities, this is greeted with some disbelief. (For more info, see the NY Times article on this September 20, 2017. I no longer use links for security reasons, plus this is all destined for print at some point.)

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Georgia Startup Incubator Harvest 48