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2022 Predictions

Eric Friedman

4/ Streaming equity – venture funds + employee stock becomes more liquid. With the advent of programs like CartaX and what I call streaming venture funds , the liquidity in private markets is going to get the foundation to grow significantly in 2021. 7/ SaaS roll-ups and micro-private equity become huge.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Parker found that equity as compensation helped build loyalty to his company -- even among consultants. But sharing equity can have pitfalls, too.

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2021 Predictions

Eric Friedman

The idea of Twitter reincarnating the “verified” program under the launch of a creator economy support system would re-invigorate developers, be an easy way to start to KYC people and integrate with payment gateways (hello Square – they know people over there. 7/ SaaS roll-ups and micro-private equity become huge.

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

If an incubator offers your startup $25,000 in exchange for 6% equity, the pre-money valuation is a whopping $391,667. Rather than assign a monetary value to the intangibles, a startup should instead assign an equity percentage value to intangibles like mentorship. Other incubators may want to set up an option pool.

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Startups: Cut the Wheat from the Chaff on Quora

VC Cafe

link] – affiliate and referral programs (my company). You can then give your most passionate advocates an informal role, or ask them to join a non-exec board, or if they can really open doors give them equity. Chatterous is a tool that allows you to set up group chats that integrate with gtalk. verifyapp - feature feeback.

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Be careful about equity and options!

Berkonomics

Here is the warning: The execution of equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. … Equity is divided between the founders and the business begun.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees. At a $1 million, pre-money, with an investment of $500K, that would leave 67% of the company for the founders and initial option pool. Labels: angel groups , valuation. 1 comment: Anonymous said. Help, please. Newer Post.