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How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence?

Both Sides of the Table

which really means, are you really so naïve as to have a discussion with a VC and you’re worried about sharing your high-level financial results and forecasts?). He forwarded an annoyed email to my main contact at Salesforce. They want to see your cap table, your legal documents, your major contracts, your full financial model, etc.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. So how does this work in practice? Entrepreneur : “Sure.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. Name and email address are required. Invalid URL.

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Setting Up Your Accounting System

Feld Thoughts

Build a financial model that forecasts the P&L. Tie the P&L forecast to the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement and generate snapshots of what the Financial Statements will look like each year for the next 5 years. QuickBooks allows you to forecast expenses. This should tie to your GL for “Actuals” (i.e.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. 4) Manage deal flow. She is a model for us all! .

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

And so I'd have to read hundreds and hundreds of emails of the pain and suffering they're going through. Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. And the good thing is, was it included people that were already in our cap table.