Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around.

Technical Review 436

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 436

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around.

Sweat Equity 207

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 207

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. How complex is the capitalization table? One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

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.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

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. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. We should expect more of these in the future.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40