Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2012

Define equity type. The first capital a young company receives usually takes the form of common stock, the same class of shares the founders hold. These “IV drip” financings may reduce risk for investors, but put more pressure on founders. But the lead Angel would certainly ask to be given a seat.

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Term Sheet Pre-Money Valuation Due Diligence Post-Money Valuation 223

Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It should therefore come as no surprise that an asymmetry of information exists, mostly gleaned from experience, between founders and investors in a venture financing deal. A group led by Ted Wang is trying to change that with the innovative Series Seed documents , which I’ll discuss in a future post.)

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Finance Term Sheet Preferred Stock Bridge Financing 178

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Define equity type. The first capital a young company receives usually takes the form of common stock, the same class of shares the founders hold. These “IV drip” financings may reduce risk for investors, but put more pressure on founders. But the lead angel would certainly ask to be given a seat.

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Term Sheet Pre-Money Valuation Due Diligence Post-Money Valuation 227

Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Convertible equity? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” Convertible debt? As of August 2010, Paul Graham famously proclaimed , “Convertible notes have won.

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Finance Convertible Security Equity Seed Stage 134

Austin Startup

APRIL 28, 2019

Mitch Marchand, founder of Vybe Software, working at Sputnik ATX accelerator in Austin, TX First off, and full disclosure, I operate an accelerator program (Sputnik ATX) and have strong opinions on this subject as a participant in the “helping startups” market. Giving up equity for a desk is a sub-optimal business decision.

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Incubator Equity Programming Cloud 50

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Define equity type. The first capital a young company receives usually takes the form of common stock, the same class of shares the founders hold. These “IV drip” financings may reduce risk for investors, but put more pressure on founders. But the lead angel would certainly ask to be given a seat.

Term Sheet 158

Term Sheet Pre-Money Valuation Due Diligence Post-Money Valuation 158

Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In case it isn’t clear by now, angel investors aren’t in the business of making risky early stage investments in order to earn 6% interest on their money, or even 10%— the upside is all in conversion to equity—so the interest rate isn’t a major point of negotiation. These deal terms are simple but significant.

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Finance Preferred Stock Term Sheet Early Stage 79

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

To catch you up, here’s a brief summary of TinySeed: TinySeed is a remote accelerator designed for SaaS founders seeking mentorship from world-class experts, community with other talented founders, and enough funding to live for a year. And in exchange for this $6k-$18k and mentorship, YC asked for 7% equity.

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Early Stage Valuation Seed Capital Revenue 46

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. They also avoid Reg D.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network? Non of this academic stuff.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44