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FELD THOUGHTS JULY 29, 2011 Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business. MORE >>	NOAM WASSERMAN JUNE 15, 2012 Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company? Dead equity — equity held by employees and founders no longer working at the company — is a large and growing problem. MORE >>	RECENT POSTS MAY 23, 2013 \| FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG Build to Sell (Even If You Don't Plan on It) MAY 23, 2013 \| EARLY GROWTH FINANCIAL SERVICES Micromidas: Transforming a College Project into an Industry Leading Bio-Tech Company MAY 22, 2013 \| ARCTICSTARTUP A Kickstarter Kick Start MAY 21, 2013 \| FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG 3 College-Town Incubators to Watch MAY 19, 2013 \| JOHN O'FARRELL US Senate: Don’t Punish the Startup for the Sins of the Outsourcer MAY 17, 2013 \| MARK BIRCH "The busiest sector continues to be companies selling software to businesses. Marketing-software."
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A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY APRIL 14, 2011 How To Allocate Founder and Employee Equity It never makes sense to give anyone equity without vesting. The thing I love the most about Joel's post is he throws darts into a lot of conventional wisdom about founder equity allocation. particularly like his notion that the person with the idea should not command a premium on equity allocation. Great post by Joel. MORE >>	SOCAL CTO FEBRUARY 22, 2011 Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data The data is a bit tough to deal with via a post, so I've shared it two ways: You can find a PDF with some analysis at: CTO Equity Compensation PDF. MORE >>	SOCAL CTO FEBRUARY 22, 2011 CTO Equity and Compensation at Venture Backed Companies The data is a bit tough to deal with via a post, so I've shared it two ways: You can find a PDF with some analysis at: CTO Equity Compensation PDF. MORE >>	DAVID TETEN NOVEMBER 10, 2011 Template Startup Financial Model Here you will see listed assets, liabilities, and equity. Private Equity Public MarketsMore on this in a later blog post. MORE >>
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STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

Having seen these dilemmas derail countless startups, I wish every entrepreneur and prospective founder would read this book." - Eric The following is an exclusive excerpt which sets up a common pitfall regarding equity splits. Setting the early equity split in stone is one of the biggest mistakes founders can make. MORE >>

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SOCAL CTO | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? Understand where they were in terms of being able to pay or was this equity-only (sweat equity only). And he was still in the process of raising additional capital, so it was equity only. There are cases where I will do equity-only deals. MORE >>

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THINKING ABOUT THINKING | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Groupon Has Called Every Business In The United States

Filed under: Economy , Growth Equity , Technology. Economy Growth Equity TechnologyI believe this could be a true statement by the end of 2011 if it was Groupon’s intent to do so (which it may not be). It’s very simple math. Many industry sources put the number of Groupon sales reps at 3,000+. MORE >>

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K9 VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011
Thoughts on Convertible Notes

may be well be in the minority in the Valley to think this way — especially so as a seed stage investor — but I have a strong preference for doing priced equity rounds for funding companies at any stage. It is in essence equivalent to being a Liquidation Preference that is typically seen in a preferred equity financing. MORE >>

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CHRIS DIXON | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012
Equity value

This is a useful way to understand the meaning of “equity value” You learn in finance that equity value is the overall value of a the stock (i.e. equity) of a business, which in turn is the present value of all future profits. In perfectly competitive markets, all profit margins tend toward zero. startups MORE >>

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