Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
2007 was the watershed year. It’s hard to work out the cap table with your peers when one of them has no real intent in fixing the problem. But the biggest changes in our industry have been driven by technical changes themselves to which we are just observers and fortunate beneficiaries.
VC Adventure
AUGUST 15, 2018
It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table).
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 7, 2014
There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007.
Gust
OCTOBER 8, 2014
There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 15, 2014
The CEO and founder, Steve Olechowski , was co-founder / COO of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. 2) Keeping the number of entries on our cap table relatively small. We recently funded Blinkfire Analytics using our FG Angels Syndicate. I was an investor and on the board of FeedBurner, which is how I got to know Steve.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.
techcrunch.com
APRIL 26, 2013
From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch.
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