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 >>

Seth Levine from Foundry Group touched off a debate on which is the best way to raise startup financing: convertible debt or equity. So in the Series A, when you now want to raise $2M and the pre-money valuation is $6M, the $500k is measured against a pre-money valuation of $4.8M. All prominent and successful investors. MORE >>

Getting Funded avoid down round Startup fundraising startup valuationIntroduction This post aims to help startup CEOs optimize their funding strategy by examining how investors value startups, and explaining how to avoid the common cash management pitfalls. MORE >>

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out  that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K). “ . MORE >>

Anytime a privately-held company issues securities – to investors in a financing, to employees as compensation, or for any other reason – the issuer must be able to point to an applicable exemption from the general requirement that all issuances of securities be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). MORE >>