Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2018
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. and then asking to take a brochure home with you.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 4, 2021
What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for?
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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.
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. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel.
genylabs.typepad.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. 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. government policy. Disclosure Policy. Demographics.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub. 6 ]Ive omitted one source: government grants.
Haystack
DECEMBER 28, 2019
The genie is out of the bottle – technology is proliferating worldwide, relatively new web and mobile users could use Slack, or Zoom, or pick-any-service on a daily basis, often paying for it. Technology also levies a deflationary effect, which I’ll address more below.
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