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Mark Hauser’s Hauser Private Equity Spearheads Major Deals in Industrial Sector

The Startup Magazine

Their investment supported Stat Health’s recapitalization, alongside Spanos Barber Jesse & Co. When looking for co-investors Mark Hauser searches for those with strong operational strengths , and Revelstoke’s strategic expertise and experience in the healthcare sector made them an ideal partner for the deal.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Survivors

Both Sides of the Table

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. But I’ve been thinking a lot about failure in the past year or so. Yet failure smells.

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Startup Financial Models: Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design

David Teten

But then again, very few of us will cofound a billion-dollar company which gets massive traction on day 1. A good model should have the ability to test assumptions in order to analyze the impact on future financial performance, including growth rates, operating margins, product lines/individual segments, and refinancings/recapitalizations.

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The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds

Feld Thoughts

So they recapitalize the company. The new money comes in at a pre-money valuation of $100, but includes a complete refresh of founder equity to 40% of the company. So the new investment gets 60%, the founders get 39.9%, and the $1m of seed money gets 0.1%. and the investors, who put up $1m in a convertible note, get 0.1%.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

venturehacks.com

The company is acquired, recapitalized, or otherwise restructured and the advisors are no longer useful or desired. We’re founders (Epinions), investors (Twitter), students (life), and advisors (billions). All our products Pitching Hacks , Cap Table , and Co-founder Interview. Our Book Check out the free samples.

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

Simeon, can you tell us how you structure ownership and control so you can fire your co-founders if necessary? The first part will dispel some myths, address the lifecycle of founder agreements and the key compensation and control parameters in them. Let’s start by dispelling some myths: There is a standard founder agreement.

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