David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. For more on gathering data and using it to assess companies, see How to Assess Startups Using Machine Learning. 2) Market .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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. No problem.

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Cap Table Due Diligence Forecast Churn Rate 336

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Reporting is important but often for startup boards not a very good use of the time you have together. Also include your cap table, any board minutes you’re asking the board to approve as well as option grants and any other board business you’re planning on asking the board to consider in the meeting.

Design 91

Design Cap Table Email Operations 91

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Lots of startups have nothing more than an outsourced bookkeeper or one junior staff accountant. As startups scale, they are likely to hire a more senior accountant, maybe an AR/AP/Collections staff member, or even a Controller or VP Finance. What comes before a full-fledged CFO? Posted on the Bolster Blog here ).

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Hiring Cap Table Finance Equity 117

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

WeWork needed billions in a cap table crushing lifeline and Knotel went bankrupt as well. There’s a metric f**k ton of empty commercial real estate out there—yet landlords continue to try to squeeze existing tenants for every last dime.

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Cofounder Venture Capital Community PR 140

OnlyOnce

MAY 26, 2022

So, getting this role right is one of the most important tasks of any startup team. Do you spend a lot of your time dealing with finance-related issues like fundraising, debt, investors, or cap table questions? The post Signs Your CFO Isn’t Scaling appeared first on The Startup CEO blog. Trust your gut.

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Cap Table Forecast Finance Metrics 62

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And the reason is, there's a bunch of reasons for this, but one of them is that doing a startup is just so difficult. Because usually the first couple of years of a startup are just moving from one setback to the next with enthusiasm. So I see people sometimes tell me, "Why are you doing this startup?"

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could. So you are taking a gamble that with more cash, you can get to series B metrics. Most of their startups end up failing.

Bootstrapping 90

Bootstrapping Cap Table Salary .Net 90

ithacaVC

APRIL 5, 2011

I am a huge fan of simple cap tables. A cap table is a written record (in Excel, for example) of who owns stock in your company. This suggestion was completely appropriate as doing a Series A round for only $XX,000 would gum up the company’s cap table (thereby violating the simple cap table rule).

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Common Stock Stock Cap Table Preferred Stock 45

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Anytime the financial model indicates that SayAhh will run out of cash, determine how you will raise capital to ensure liquidity and be sure to properly account for the debt or equity transaction on the balance sheet and Cap Table. Tie each round of funding to a set of key milestones in the development of your product/business.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Cap Table Early Stage 136

Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could. So you are taking a gamble that with more cash, you can get to series B metrics. Most of their startups end up failing.

Bootstrapping 48

Bootstrapping Cap Table Salary .Net 48

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

One difficult part in startup decision making is choosing the decisions to make. Activities that miss their metrics, either on the low side or the high side should rise to the daily decision list. 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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Cap Table Austin PR Founder 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

People, not just metrics. And what I mean by that is, almost every metric, every graph, every number, is a person. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too. Brian Chesky : Metrics are people. And so suddenly, your master are your metrics. Your metrics are your master. He has a unique business philosophy.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2010

Money at a startup is kind of like cash in your wallet—it gets spent. The level of increased complexity in a startup that goes from let’s say two developers and a business or product person just focusing on one thing, to three or four developers and more than one product front to wage war on is significant. Drive one key metric.

Cap Table 106

Cap Table Seed Stage .Net Venture Capital 106

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Next came Rolfe Winkler’s deep dive “ Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence. ”

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