Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We were targeting to raise around $3 million in investment capital. We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. Our attorney should have known.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

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. But this usually happens NOT to compensate for dilution, but to recognize a bigger contribution to the company than what you were originally hired for.

Equity 56

Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As a result, there is a much bigger supply of these people than there are of founders who can get a company to the point of hiring some early employees. The risk to the entrepreneur is that he loses several tens of millions of dollars in opportunity cost. Is it reasonable to not have equity in a startup as a first employee ?

Equity 40

Equity Employee Founder Cofounder 40

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. Moreover, once high-flying startups began to struggle on the fundraising trail.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40