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Users Guide to Startup Advisors

Gust

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.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

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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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner.