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The BSList - Busted Cap Table (No. 104)

This is going to be BIG.

In other words, you’re one of dozens, perhaps 100’s of companies getting the same exact e-mail where the VC says they’re really excited about what you’re doing and they work with such and such partner and the firm has done such and such IPOs, etc. But back to the cap table. and they take a hefty chunk of the cap table to do it.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. In Silicon Valley the name I hear mentioned most often for very early stage deals is Joey Tran from Fortis. Here’s a hack for you.

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What to expect before accepting the offer to become Engineer #1 at a startup

The Next Web

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Cap tables sound intimidating. It is typical for employees to vest their options over four years with a one year cliff, which means a new hire must stay on the company for at least one year to see any shares.

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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

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. The preferred stock held by investors has (as the name implies) more rights and privileges than the common stock issued to employees. 4 Vesting.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from. What is an incubator? Im not sure myself.

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Level Setting and Career Goals for VCs: What level are Midas List VCs actually performing on?

This is going to be BIG.

Until you IPO, feeling like you’re good may just depend on what part of the fundraising cycle you’re taking a snapshot of your companies in. That’s how it feels when your hot deal from two years ago winds up running low on cash and gets into a pay-to-play round that wipes out the cap table. But I thought I was good!?”

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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