Cap Table Dilution Hiring Marketing 
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 18, 2024
While they might be generally smart, they’re unsophisticated investors who don’t know what the market is for where you are. They try to sign simple, market-standard deals, keeping the bells and whistles to a minimum while focusing on just a few critical deal points that are most likely to move the needle on their returns.
Up and Running
JULY 2, 2014
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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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 22, 2010
Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money. The VC assumes you’ll have an option pool.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
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”.
keen.io
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. On the other hand, this was new territory for the founders as well; they had zero experience making offers to new startup hires. So I knew a little bit. I knew enough to know I wanted to join a startup. 8 and 2.5%
Haystack
AUGUST 18, 2019
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
Ben's Blog
APRIL 1, 2011
Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. I remember when I first became CEO, an investor asked me to send him the “cap table.” Raise money in a highly dilutive way. —The Geto Boys, Mind Playing Tricks on Me.
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