Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2022

Why Bringing These Two Skillsets Onto Your Cap Table Early Is Worth It. In addition to our dollars, we are eager to help founders with the construction of their cap table, not just generically with the highest profile folks available, but more specifically where they might get some help along the way. Nor Do VCs.

Seed Stage 102

Seed Stage Cap Table Founder Marketing 102

Version One Ventures

MAY 22, 2018

How do you decide who you should have in your cap table? Are you looking for help and expertise in hiring, product strategy, customer development, fundraising, coaching, therapy, etc.? The post The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table? What is important to you?

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

If you’ve never done a tech startup before , it’s helpful to have someone who has ticked the boxes (raised money, built something people hate, built something people loved, hired someone, fired someone, made money, lost money). You’ll need to keep hiring tech guys. And sometimes it’s super ambiguous.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review CTO Hire Cap Table Software Review 38

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Development firms that advertise part equity and cash are simply not mature in defining their model, and thus they have no business taking stakes in others.

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Streak , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Without raising money, 1 of 2 situations would have fallen upon us: I would have had to dig deeper into my own pockets to continue to pay the contractor as well as hire others. I would have continued to scrape by with a product that was conceptually on point, but didn’t have the bells and whistles that customers expect nowadays.

Bootstrapping 63

Bootstrapping Cap Table Liquidation Preference Cofounder 63