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.
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.
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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.
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.
Up and Running
JULY 2, 2014
My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. We gladly handed it over to him as part of the due diligence process.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). Perhaps the library or a local tech company can host.
www.mattbartus.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. I can tell you that, among other problems, any uncertainty in the capitalization table when the company is acquired will be resolved squarely and unequivocally in favor of the buyer.
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