Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 22, 2020
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 18, 2023
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 10, 2016
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 8, 2015
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter. According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. However, entrepreneurs still need to approach angel investors offline for larger amounts of capital.
Gust
DECEMBER 6, 2012
What’s an advisor to a startup deal? Advisors with options or equity should be long-term people who will stay with the company from startup to exit. Nobody should ever be on the capital table for what they did once in the past. And having a vendor own shares means fewer shares for the investors and management team.
Pascal's View
JULY 9, 2017
There is nothing wrong with using a SAFE or a convertible note in a startup if you know its implications. 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.
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