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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

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.

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Introducing Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures (and their back story)

OnlyOnce

I’ve never written before about those other “potential business opportunities” that our team was exploring along with our prior investment syndicate, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, Greg Sands from Costanoa Ventures, and Brad Feld from Foundry. She joined our team pretty quickly, first fractionally (the Bolster way, right?),