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New Investment Initiative from Launch NY

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With nearly 130 co-investors to date in Launch NY portfolio companies who have received funding from the Launch NY Seed Fund, the most active seed fund in NYS, our companies have secured 12x the $1.9MM we have invested. The investment will appear as one line item on the company’s capitalization table.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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“They both got very excited about the idea,” says Coats, who says he also studied the work of Harry Markowitz, a pioneer in portfolio theory (now a professor of finance at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management). Site produced by Andrew Koyfman with design from Rob Hunter. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Valuing Startup Employee Options

David Teten

In particular, this model is designed to help all team members understand the impact of dilution on their options. Enter Raul: This capital table startup options valuation model was created with the purpose of valuing options for an illiquid, early-stage start-up. I couldn’t find one online, so I built it.

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Cap Tables Explained: Guide to Understanding Cap Tables

Board Effect

Capitalization tables—”cap tables” for those who don’t have time for extra syllables—map the balance of power in a company. If org charts are about people power , cap tables are about money power. In reality, however, cap tables are often far more complex.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

After that company failed, I went on and interviewed a bunch of investors that I had met and also some other CEO’s who had failed companies prior to their successes now and asked them, “Why did these companies fail in your portfolio?” ” or “Why did the company you’ve started fail?”