YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Of course, a certain amount of initial capital without financial performance is absolutely necessary to get a business off the ground, especially in regulated industries. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

Cofounder 127

Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Cofounder Seed Capital 127

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also worth keeping in mind that regardless of how the founders’ common stock is divided, there will be future issuance of stock that will dilute the founders over the lifecycle of the company. This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point.

Equity 315

Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also worth keeping in mind that regardless of how the founders’ common stock is divided, there will be future issuance of stock that will dilute the founders over the lifecycle of the company. This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

.” 2/ Lateral Competition – The number of “seed” funds has also grown during this boon. More and more seed capital has flooded into the market, making the situation for funding seed rounds ~$2M-ish total size more competitive. Samir Kaji from First Republic has been writing on this for years.

Seed Stage 108

Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also worth keeping in mind that regardless of how the founders’ common stock is divided, there will be future issuance of stock that will dilute the founders over the lifecycle of the company. This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

Austin Startup

APRIL 28, 2019

I put that in quotations, because, as I’ll expound, there is a start-up industrial complex that is designed to fleece novice founders from their seed capital with predatory fees, terms, etc. If you really need a desk, drive Uber/Lyft for a day and use your earnings to pay for that workspace without diluting your equity.

Incubator 50

Incubator Equity Programming Cloud 50

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. The first big idea is that unlike in the 20 th century when there were two phases of funding startups– Seed capital and Venture capital–today there is a new, third phase. It’s called Growth capital.

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Stock Options Stock Vesting Common Stock 334