YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
As an entrepreneur, your goal when raising financing is to get several term sheets — the documents describing the terms and conditions of financing. One of the worst positions you can be in during a financing is to have investors interested, but be too far short of your goal. Determine how much you need to raise.
Up and Running
JULY 2, 2014
We were targeting to raise around $3 million in investment capital. We developed a kick-ass investor pitch and we started pitching it to family, friends, angel investors, and even venture capitalists for feedback. This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called.
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Pascal's View
JULY 9, 2017
When it comes time to convert the notes, these entrepreneurs face ‘sticker shock’ about their post-financing ownership. The bottom line: Startup CEOs/Founders need to do the projected capitalization table math on an as-converted, post-money basis from Day 1, before issuing any notes and modeling various possible future scenarios.
www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Correlation Ventures is tied to a different legacy—HNC Software, which was a pioneering developer of predictive software that was used to assess the risk of credit card fraud. President and CEO, Complete Genomics.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
I’ve often found it helpful to have on hand a simple model showing the impact of each financing stages on all team members, suitable for sharing with everyone in the company. He wrote the following guest blog post, and worked closely with me to develop this financial model. I couldn’t find one online, so I built it.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Wondering what a cap table is, its importance, and how you can maintain it to expand your business? What is a cap table? A cap table is also known as the capitalization table. This is a table that outlines the company’s capitalization. Therefore a cap table is needed to maintain all of that.
www.payne.org
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
At a minimum, do your own personal finance homework so you know how much salary you need to live and not spend your savings. Its totally dependent on you, your circumstances, the company, the companys development stage, and how badly they want you (or not). I get asked all the time: how much equity should I expect?
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