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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6%

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Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

www.copelandfirm.com

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection. Conclusion.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Often times when companies raise “bridgefinancing (this is money from internal investors. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009. We spoke briefly about why.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

venturehacks.com

Do you mean the shares go to the founders? That does work if the company gets sold before another round of financing. But if you do another round of financing first, those unallocated shares will go into a new option pool. What if the founder already included an option pool in the existing shares outstanding?