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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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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. The reason these terms can produce returns by themselves is that they set the stage for a rejiggering of the capitalization table at some point in the future. This is uncharted territory.

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10 Steps to Success With Angel Investors

Business Plan Blog

This process may include the provision of various scenarios on revenues and costs as the investors validate forecasts initially presented. A capitalization table showing the post-investment ownership structure of the business to include founders, option pool and investors in the current round. Professional fees and costs.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

They never worked with startups who needed to put together private placement memos for investors, capitalization tables and all of those things. Bigger than that was we had an operating agreement that had a non dilution clause for him and I don’t want to get into the weeds of that. What are those things?