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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. of our company in exchange for the $300K, and my business partner and I each diluted from 50% ownership down to 33.3% ownership and never dilute.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Benefits: Non-dilutive, flexible credit offerings that fit SMB or enterprise SaaS. For RBI, return caps of 1.2x-1.8x The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. Limited amount of existing debt and a clean cap table”.

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How I negotiated my startup compensation

keen.io

And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. From there, I began googling things like “first employee startup equity” and “startup offer negotiation.” These were the best resources I found: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups. So I knew a little bit.

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Entrepreneurs: Your instincts are always better than bad advice

The Next Web

More often than not, these companies have no formal option pool, although many have either formal or informal promises to grant options to key employees. While there are no hard and fast rules, when we make a Series A investment we expect to own around 20% of the company on a fully-diluted basis.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years is not a long arc – I have not experienced a prolonged down market as a private investor. We know private markets hold the key to 100x or even 1,000x multiples. In short, in my 6.5

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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

Startup Equity For Employees. 3 Dilution. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. In a startup, dilution happens, and you just need to factor it in. diluted) terms.

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What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology

Ben's Blog

I remember when I first became CEO, an investor asked me to send him the “cap table.” Things go wrong, because building a multi-faceted human organization to compete and win in a dynamic, highly competitive market turns out to be really hard. What if I was misleading everyone from investors to employees?