Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

How complex is the capitalization table? The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. 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

How complex is the capitalization table? The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. 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

How complex is the capitalization table? The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Marty Zwilling.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

How complex is the capitalization table? The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. 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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter. Taking a campaign online and encouraging non-accredited investors to use a crowdfunding platform is a great way to show their support, manage the volume, and market your business. However, entrepreneurs still need to approach angel investors offline for larger amounts of capital.

Angel Investor 159

Angel Investor Technical Review Software Review Accredited Investor 159

www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I can’t tell you how often a client calls me up and says something like this: “Matt, we have this great new consultant who is going to make introductions to us to [pick type of business partner]. Also, there is a related issue of ensuring that a contractor is actually a contractor and not really a misclassified employee.

Equity 40

Equity Vesting Silicon Valley Intellectual Property 40

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. These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40