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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary. Ironically, startup investors are normally in less personal jeopardy than early startup employees.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary. Ironically, startup investors are normally in less personal jeopardy than early startup employees.

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8 Questions Before You Join Or Invest In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary. Ironically, startup investors are normally in less personal jeopardy than early startup employees.

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Validate The Pedigree Of A Startup Before You Jump

Startup Professionals Musings

How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary. Ironically, startup investors are normally in less personal jeopardy than early startup employees.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called. We gladly handed it over to him as part of the due diligence process. We were on a roll.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

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However, entrepreneurs still need to approach angel investors offline for larger amounts of capital. They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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On the Road to Recap:

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All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door.

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