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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling. Good people and evil people.

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Post-Seed Funding Checklist for Founder/CEOs

Genuine VC

Funding Announcement Figure out your PR strategy for announcing the round to get your plan in order. Communications with New Board & Investors Ensure all of your investors have all legal documentation of the round, including an electronic version of the final cap table.

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

David Teten

EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. Satisfying LP demands and streamlining the valuation process are primary drivers in those clients’ adoption of Ipreo’s portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions, iLEVEL, iVAL, and Qval. .

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Deciding What to Decide

Austin Startup

Do you need to pour more dollars into marketing and PR? Plus, you’ll have surprise decisions every day based on the actions of customers or employees or occasionally some externality. If you do eventually expose your company to those professionals, all your dumb shareholders will get crushed in the new cap table.

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An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

Hospitality is a difficult and emotionally draining business for employees—and many of those frontline workers have a very different racial and economic profile than the folks who own and lead those businesses. WeWork needed billions in a cap table crushing lifeline and Knotel went bankrupt as well.

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