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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 6) Due diligence. 3) Raise capital.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [ Theres only common stock at this stage.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  The right of first refusal for all of a future financing is a very unfriendly provision to entrepreneurs that can make future financing all but impossible.   ยท       Conditions Precedent mean that the closing of the proposed offering is subject to the conditions specified here.

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How Many Investors are Too Many?

Both Sides of the Table

When you consider that they’ll also want a 15-20% option pool in the company you’re talking about founders owning as little as 40% after just one round. Best if you get much of this from due diligence of calling other portfolio companies and then use this information to confirm with the VC.

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