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Web-Based Worthworm Helps Determine PMV For Startup Investment Purposes

YoungUpstarts

” “Worthworm is designed to fill the market void, providing users with an affordable, rigorous, web-based valuation system that derives a reasonable and defensible pre-money valuation from which entrepreneurs and angel investors can begin negotiating,” Lobock adds.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

Taking a campaign online and encouraging non-accredited investors to use a crowdfunding platform is a great way to show their support, manage the volume, and market your business. However, entrepreneurs still need to approach angel investors offline for larger amounts of capital. Capitalization Table and Shareholder Roster.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

While VC deals remain marketed on a pre-money basis, sophisticated investors know that what matters most is the post-money (how much of the company will I own after all of the new shares have been issued). It will be worth the time and effort.

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7 Equity Crowdfunding Risks Feared By Many Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The infrastructure to manage thousands of shareholders in a single company, called the stock market for public companies, is missing. Professional investors like to keep tight control of capitalization tables and all stock owners, to facilitate their own payoff when a sale, merger, or public stock offering is held.

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Valuing Startup Employee Options

David Teten

Enter Raul: This capital table startup options valuation model was created with the purpose of valuing options for an illiquid, early-stage start-up. Projections were based on dozens of operational assumptions related to pricing, production, marketing spend, etc. In banking, a lot of my time was spent on modeling cash flows.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

www.quora.com

This is a far cry from a sustainable business, product-market fit, and a long ways from profitability in most cases. The average GS employee spends more each year on watches a year than you make working at market rate for a salary. They've got a handful of customers, maybe a few thousand users, and some initial traction.

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