David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). 8) Monitor and report investments. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). 8) Monitor and report investments. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our goal is to develop innovative products and features that help make recruiters jobs easier, emphasizing the importance of humans making decisions in hiring. HW: We’re going to see many more software CEOs (and cap tables) look for private equity exits like yours. We know that AI can help hiring teams do more with less.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Equity DC Leveraged Buyout 78

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Therefore, going down the fundraising path is something many technology entrepreneurs will need to do and a critical step in the development of their business. Remember, once you screw up your Cap Table it's really hard to go back. He explains five problems with this and I couldn't agree more.

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Cap Table Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Technical Review 125

OnlyOnce

JULY 30, 2020

Sometimes you can have a major internal problem related to the cap table–a founder with a lot of stock needs liquidity or you need to push this person out of the company. Or maybe when you look two years out you realize that your company is at its highwater mark in valuation, so it becomes a timing issue.

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Cap Table Institutional Investors Startup Early Stage 48

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

One of the most important decisions for a founder of an early stage company is deciding who should be on the cap table. In contrast, when an A fund invests in many seed companies, this may indicate a “spray and pray” approach and the fund may dedicate less resources toward your development. For example, a high ratio (e.g.

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Cap Table Due Diligence Early Stage Portfolio 351

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Cheap, mobile, social, global, massive, always-on, one-click-purchase has led to the most successful companies of our era hitting unprecedented scale early in their development and has massively shifted the value captured from post-IPO investors to pre-IPO investors as is demonstrated in the chart above. and hasn’t abated.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

which they co-developed with Fenwick & West. . Some firms provide tools to model investment, e.g., Capital’s Cost of Equity estimator ; Lighter Capital’s Cost of Capital Calculator ; Indie VC’s Cap Table Comparison Model ; 645 Ventures’ cap table simulator ; and Bootstrapp.co’s Comprehensive Cost of Capital Calculator.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We developed a kick-ass investor pitch and we started pitching it to family, friends, angel investors, and even venture capitalists for feedback. This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called. We set off to raise our money.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. And if you’re not busy being crushed (diluted) you might not notice that the people above you in the cap table (e.g.

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Cap Table Angel Investor Liquidation Preference Deal Flow 283

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2014

You''re not a development shop that takes equity. Others talked as if they were the ones doing the deals--even though they''re just the ones making the cap tables in Excel. In common parlance, "VC" refers to someone who is an investor--who can do a deal. This means you have a pool of money. You''re not a broker. You''re smart.

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Venture Capital Cap Table Startup Early Stage 140

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Previous venture firms’ specific involvement on the cap table should be noted here, though. develop and launch X product, reach Y number of users, generate $Z amount revenue). For example, stating “angels” is fine, and even highlighting notable names can be useful, but it’s unnecessary to share an exhaustive list.

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Cap Table Seed Stage Valuation Dilution 211

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I love how open Danielle has been throughout the development of her startup Mattermark including honest reflections of when she has changed her opinion. “I love those Beats commercials where the basketball player puts on his music and tunes it all out, to go win the game,” she said. That’s what it feels like.”. I agree up to a point.

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Cap Table Cofounder Silicon Valley Startup 150

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This is all incorporated into a document called a Cap Table. . A cap table will help you in the strategic management of business decisions. Wondering what a cap table is, its importance, and how you can maintain it to expand your business? What is a cap table? Let’s dive in.

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Cap Table Pre-Money Valuation Stock Options Option Pool 112

Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

The most serious unintended consequence occurs from “note waterfalls”— converting multiple notes that have multiple valuation caps. Many entrepreneurs lose track of what they have been cooking up in the cap table. They do not recognize that they may have already contractually sold a meaningful portion of equity in their company.

Post-Money Valuation 49

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Cap Table Covenant 49

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. Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Why Pairing Junior Executives With External Mentors Can Accelerate Your Hiring and Their Professional Development Often at a startup it’s better to hire for talent, ambition, and commitment, than years in role or ‘did they have the job already somewhere else.’ Monthly 1:1s and as-needed tactical advice, introductions, and so on.

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Hiring Cap Table Equity Dividend 60

Hunter Walker

JULY 20, 2019

When I’m on the cap table I can help a founder navigate this to try and avoid going the distance with a potential investor. Maybe I’ll write a separate post at some point about the process with investors who have a “prepared mind” for your startup versus those who are still developing their own thesis.

Partner 92

Partner Cap Table Vertical Portfolio 92

www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Therefore, going down the fundraising path is something many technology entrepreneurs will need to do and is a critical step in the development of their business. Remember, once you screw up your cap table it's really hard to go back. He explains five problems with this and I couldn't agree more.

Cap Table 47

Cap Table Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Technical Review 47

Altgate

JUNE 25, 2012

Instead, the dead equity languishes on the cap table, weighing down the startup and making it harder to attract and motivate the people who could impact its growth. Every share of dead equity could have been redeployed as incentive for a current or future contributor to grow the value of the startup.

Equity 44

Equity Vesting Cap Table Technical Review 44

Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

Hiring, org structure, product development philosophies and so on. Who will hold the accountable to building something they’re proud of but remember we sit on the cap table, not the org chart. . “Horizontal Expertise” – We see lots of startups, we’ve built and run large teams.

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Cap Table Portfolio Vertical Reputation 81

The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

If the founding team is non-technical and you can’t figure out whether you are being screwed by your developers or whether your potential new CTO is amazing, a tech advisor can help by joining you in interviews and reviewing commits. You probably don’t need to get the cap table involved in that.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review CTO Hire Cap Table Software Review 38

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. We have developed a proprietary machine learning algorithm that assesses the risk and return profile of the business and determines whether to invest in the business. Limited amount of existing debt and a clean cap table”. Alternative Capital. “

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. I believe investors had forced him to do this. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure.

Partner 340

Partner Los Angeles South Africa Cap Table 340

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers Arul & Associates LLC Accounting The Resumator HR admin. Powered by Personforce. Latest on TechCrunch TV.

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SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? They’ll invite you out to events in which you’ll meet their other clients, you can get to know them socially and hopefully develop a real mentorship relationship where every conversation is not on the clock.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 21, 2022

From how to develop your idea, to customer validation, investment, communication & marketing, governance, cap tables, due diligence, sales, are just some of the areas that as a founder you will need to navigate.

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Founder Cap Table Cofounder New Zealand 88

Altgate

AUGUST 25, 2012

Instead, the dead equity languishes on the cap table, weighing down the startup and making it harder to attract and motivate the people who could impact its growth. Every share of dead equity could have been redeployed as incentive for a current or future contributor to grow the value of the startup.

Equity 28

Equity Vesting Cap Table Technical Review 28

David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Some firms provide tools to do this online, e.g., Capital ’s Cost of Equity estimator ; Lighter Capital’s Cost of Capital Calculator ; 645 Ventures’ cap table simulator. He or she will work with the company to develop a list of a sufficiently broad set of candidates. ” *I’m an investor.

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SBIC SBA Cap Table Database 60

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. I am a business person, not a technologist. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Examples of housekeeping include the following list, though not every item will appear every time: Finance: Cash out date, burn rate, 409A valuation, cap table, common/preferred stock dashboard. Thus, one of the major focus areas for the startup and the board will likely be product development.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

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Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

It allows you to truly focus on your product/idea instead of cap tables and keeping investors happy. Consider working part-time as a transition into entrepreneurship. I’m a big fan of bootstrapping a business instead of beginning with seed rounds. Have an original idea. So you’ve come up with an amazing solution to a problem.

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Cap Table Bootstrapping Naming America 162

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

They are typically founder-led, often by a first-time CEO with new or incomplete management teams who need a lot of mentorship/development, and with a diversified cap table of firms that don’t own operating or consulting practices to help guide the scaling process.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

This time, I was looking more closely at Keen’s cap table and various financial events, like raising Series A, becoming profitable, and company acquisition. We asked the founders to talk us through the financials, help us complete the detailed cap table, and discuss the offers together. What is the difference between.5%

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Salary Equity Startup San Francisco 50

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 2, 2015

Yet, as cash friendly as Slack could be--where it could easily have Kickstarter or Craigslist-like cashflow to cap table like ratios, it is still raising hundreds of millions of dollars. So does it really matter if it's being spent on developers or factories. Dollars are still dollars.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Viral .Net Acquisition 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. HOF Capital is currently developing a proprietary sourcing tool to automatically filter for potential deal prospects that fit our criteria. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60