Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2012

I read a few articles over the weekend about OnLive potentially going out of business, potentially screwing its employees, and a few other things. It’s painful and sucks when you are part of a company that fails (I know from experience – I’ve been there many times) – whether you are a founder, employee, or investor.

Recapitalization 136

Recapitalization Stock Options Vesting Equity 136

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. A must read! startupcto

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.”

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Or you canbecome a de facto employee of the company. They say theyre going to work on Internet search.There are already a bunch of big public companies doing search.How can these grad students possibly compete with them? It doesnt happen often.Brand-name VCs wouldnt recapitalize a company just to steal a fewpercent from an angel.

Angel Investor 63

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Dilution 63