Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

It doesn’t mean they just care about pattern matching or social proof. They can fight and win their place on these cap tables and are doing so. Several of the seed VCs I respect most, and would put my own money into, have told me they shifted to high ownership and consensus during the last few years.

Cap Table 97

Cap Table Vertical Matching Founder 97

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You can conduct group interviews, get your candidate “liquored up” (not a recommendation), and even have a trial period on the job to see if there’s a good match. 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.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

Information, relationships, pattern matching for marketplaces, SaaS, financial services, agriculture, media, etc etc – our backgrounds and/or portfolio suggest that we might have ability to help the founders move faster and with greater accuracy in testing their market hypotheses.

Cap Table 81

Cap Table Portfolio Vertical Reputation 81

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

My experience with early valuations by founders for friends… I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure.

SEC 61

SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

It allows you to truly focus on your product/idea instead of cap tables and keeping investors happy. CoFoundersLab.com is a free service that matches entrepreneurs based on their strengths and personalities. Consider working part-time as a transition into entrepreneurship. Have an original idea.

Cap Table 162

Cap Table Bootstrapping Naming America 162

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

They are typically founder-led, often by a first-time CEO with new or incomplete management teams who need a lot of mentorship/development, and with a diversified cap table of firms that don’t own operating or consulting practices to help guide the scaling process. then full-time in the middle of 2021.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

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.

Common Stock 45

Common Stock Stock Cap Table Preferred Stock 45

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. what kind of stock you are getting. what your rights are.

Equity 40

Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round, and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. Taking this kind of money has a number of pitfalls you should be aware of. months from introduction to investment.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round, and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. Taking this kind of money has a number of pitfalls you should be aware of.

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 69

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If your current salary is low relative to the market, you may be able to match or even increase your salary. If youre coming from another startup, you may be able to argue a salary match because your existing salary already reflects an equity compensation component.

Equity 56

Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

I have a portfolio where 50% of the investments have founders that come from diverse backgrounds—and yes, I want them to get money from all of the still-active funds on Uber’s cap table that benefitted from the IPO. Everyone could have done more and until we acknowledge that, this will keep happening.

Cap Table 116

Cap Table Portfolio IPO Reputation 116

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Plus, if the business doesn’t raise enough the capital in the first round to become self-sustaining, the crowdfunding round’s cap table and/or terms may make the deal unattractive or not doable for follow-on, institutional investors. Timeframes are defined and short. What kind of business is being launched?

Equity 100

Equity United Kingdom Cap Table Oklahoma 100

blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The only way to remove their equity holding in the cap table is by buying them out or through a recapitalization of the company. Initial vesting typically matches employee founders. With the right legalese, even a small shareholding can exert a huge influence and make it near impossible to remove the founder.

Founder 44

Founder Vesting Agile Startup 44

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 23, 2023

I can vouch for his genuine optimism Hunter Walk: You got to work with a number of different VCs on your cap table for Anchor. It was a match made in podcast heaven. When the two don’t match up – different visions – is that something you just keep quiet on? Who was the best one and why was it Homebrew?

Founder 88

Founder Angel Investor Cap Table Distribution 88

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The original business plan was to harvest tumors, collect genomic tests on them, use a smart database system to match their disease profiles and all annotated data against known trials and therapies, and return the results to the treatment team at the bedside. The core of this turned out to be 1.8M

Georgia 48

Georgia Startup Incubator Harvest 48

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. Electronic order matching systems that match all supply and demand for securities to determine a fair market price have been used in our financial markets since the early 1980s (approaching 40 years). These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, I got a pitch from a company providing a kind of “last mile” for computer vision—an always-on human network that would take images that computers couldn’t identify, and spit back whether or not a roof tile was broken or if a signature matched.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 150