The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
With over three decades of experience in private equity investments, acquisitions and mergers, Mark Hauser has developed a keen ability to recognize trends and do his due diligence. Their investment supported Stat Health’s recapitalization, alongside Spanos Barber Jesse & Co. Industrial Sector Opportunities.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2015
It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. But I’ve been thinking a lot about failure in the past year or so. Yet failure smells.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
But then again, very few of us will cofound a billion-dollar company which gets massive traction on day 1. A good model should have the ability to test assumptions in order to analyze the impact on future financial performance, including growth rates, operating margins, product lines/individual segments, and refinancings/recapitalizations.
blog.simeonov.com
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Simeon, can you tell us how you structure ownership and control so you can fire your co-founders if necessary? All founders have the same agreement.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 14, 2015
So they recapitalize the company. The new money comes in at a pre-money valuation of $100, but includes a complete refresh of founder equity to 40% of the company. So the new investment gets 60%, the founders get 39.9%, and the $1m of seed money gets 0.1%. and the investors, who put up $1m in a convertible note, get 0.1%.
venturehacks.com
MARCH 21, 2008
YC acts like a super advisor, not an investor—and YC makes their companies happen by helping develop the company’s product, introducing them to investors, and branding their companies. The company is acquired, recapitalized, or otherwise restructured and the advisors are no longer useful or desired. Learn more.
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