Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We were targeting to raise around $3 million in investment capital. We shared all of this with our attorney before she helped us write our Operating Agreement (OA), so we assumed we were in good hands. This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called.

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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. Enter Raul: This capital table startup options valuation model was created with the purpose of valuing options for an illiquid, early-stage start-up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to Yahoo Finance , less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns currently reach their goals, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. Startups are not required to have a formal Board of Directors, and can’t afford to implement many of the financial and operational controls required of public companies.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially. Investors were becoming nervous and were no longer willing to underwrite new Unicorn-level financings at the drop of a hat. This is uncharted territory.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. They never worked with startups who needed to put together private placement memos for investors, capitalization tables and all of those things. In this Bcast, we could do that in another one.

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