Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Nobody should ever be on the capital table for what they did once in the past. And having a vendor own shares means fewer shares for the investors and management team. Advisors with options or equity should be long-term people who will stay with the company from startup to exit. Equity is forever. Options can become equity.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Ben Elowitz.

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Early Growth Financial Services

AUGUST 23, 2013

You want a valuation firm that has experience with all types of valuation for companies like yours, including stock option management and complex capitalization tables. There are a lot of different types of valuation, including four levels of 409a valuations: Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This is all incorporated into a document called a Cap Table. . A cap table will help you in the strategic management of business decisions. Wondering what a cap table is, its importance, and how you can maintain it to expand your business? What is a cap table? A cap table is also known as the capitalization table.

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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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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

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. What is a cap table?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.” The adjustment does not happen now, it will happen later.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If I grant equity to a outsourced developer for future services after his initial contract with me is delivered on, where on the capitalization table do I place him? Is it reasonable to not have equity in a startup as a first employee ? Founder or employee?

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

I’ve done this with lots of founders and we usually glaringly see skills missing like financial management or HR managements or digital marketing or whatever those things are. They never worked with startups who needed to put together private placement memos for investors, capitalization tables and all of those things.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Also, most companies try to keep all employees on the same terms, and there are good management reasons to do that. The other factor is the "cap table" (capitalization table, or summary of who owns what stock). Some vesting plans may accelerate vesting for certain events, such as an acquisition.

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