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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

We assume we’ll be structured as a traditional Delaware C corporation. We agree on an equity split, vesting, and initial compensation structure. We agree that upon raising capital, each team member will earn $X, perhaps with an automatic bump to $Y upon achieving agreed-upon milestones. And how do you split the equity?

America 60
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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS?? Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? We assume we’ll be structured as a traditional Delaware C corporation. We agree on an equity split, vesting, and initial compensation structure. And how do you split the equity?

America 60
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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.

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Setting Up Your Accounting System

Feld Thoughts

When we were last with Dick and Jane on Finance Fridays, our fearless entrepreneurs were figuring out how to split up their founders equity and account for an investment from Jane. as a C-Corp in Delaware. Dick and Jane had limited formal business accounting experience, but they both knew how to balance a checkbook.