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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

Feld Thoughts

We didn’t have any financing except for Brad’s credit card and the $10 with which we had purchased our common stock. We employed half a dozen programmers, most of whom were undergraduates from our fraternity working part-time. Dave walked into Brad’s office after calculating preliminary financial results for January.

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Survive the Term Sheet Negotiation and Investor Due Diligence Part 1

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When a corporation is established, its ownership is divided into pieces called shares of common stock. That’s what you as a founder will have, which is why it’s also known as founders’ stock. There is a different kind of stock that investors can choose to purchase, called preferred stock.

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Dual Class Common Stock Structure for Founders

The Startup Lawyer

A startup founder’s desire to hold equity better than plain-vanilla common stock isn’t new. Several years ago, Series FF stock for founders was all the rage when it came to founder liquidity at subsequent financing rounds. We implemented Series FF for a handful of clients back then but we haven’t done so recently.

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Creative Common Stock

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One rule of simple cap tables is to issue “normal” stock to founders (common stock only) and investors (typically preferred stock, but sometimes common stock to early friends and family).

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Survive the Term Sheet Negotiation and Investor Due Diligence Part 2

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Over the past 20 years, the typical structure for seed/angel deals has shifted from common stock (in the mid-1990s) to convertible notes (late 1990s through early 2000s) to full Series A convertible preferred (mid-2000s) to convertible notes with a cap (late 2000s) to Series Seed convertible preferred or similar (present).

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8 Keys To Maximizing Your New Venture Stock Net Worth

Startup Professionals Musings

When an entrepreneur first incorporates a business, they may find themselves the proud owner of 10 million shares of common stock, commonly called founder’s shares.

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Rally Gives $1.3 Million To The Boulder Community

Feld Thoughts

This check is for The Community Foundation and for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) and results from a gift of 24,793 shares of common stock from Rally at the time of its first financing that represented approximately 1% of the equity of the company. I remember numerous conversations with Ryan about this.

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