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Techstars Foundation Accelerate Equity

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The Techstars Foundation recently announced a new program called Accelerate Equity. Through Accelerate Equity, the Techstars Foundation identifies early-stage nonprofits and ideas to empower and support underestimated entrepreneurs. The post Techstars Foundation Accelerate Equity appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Introducing the Cap Table and Hiring the CTO

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Equity is split 55% and 45%, but where is that officially recorded? The benefit of hiring Praveena is they think they could keep more equity and control of the company. But, Praveena hails from the land of big paychecks and is not ready to leave that without considerable equity. Time to update the cap table.

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Book: Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

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In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). .” The first week of 2016 in the public markets has been an entertaining reminder of this.

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