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Users Guide to Startup Advisors

Gust

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. When a web designer is the advisor I wonder what that means down the road as the startup grows. Free web design forever? Equity is forever.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

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. It will be worth the time and effort.

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

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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. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Ben Elowitz.