Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

The company has been funded entirely by grants from the National Institute of Health, amounting to millions of non-dilutive dollars in all. The company grows in value to its customers and to prospective buyers of the business, but without any dilution of control or ownership for the founders. How refreshing!

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Loan financing and equity investment are two common methods of funding a new business start-up, assuming you do not have the capital on your own. Debt financing is the better choice when you prefer to retain control of your operation, and you do not mind the tradeoff of greater risk for higher earning potential. You retain the profit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

But the reality is that you’re faced with two problems: 1) the earlier the stage the riskier and thus more write-offs so you need to have enough ownership percentage in your winners to make up for the losers and 2) the earlier stage your check the more likely the company will need many more funding rounds behind you and thus you face dilution.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Start-up | Mondays. Franchises.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

All it says is that the VC has the right (but not obligation) to invest his/her proportional ownership in the next round of financing. So if you’re raising $10 million and only want to face 20% dilution and that’s the threshold for a new investor, you’re going to see tension. “It’s 20% or nothing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Before being named president and COO of OnPay , a growing online payroll solution for small businesses, McKee worked as managing director of The Lenox Group, where he advised growing companies on how best to raise and structure capital. How do you collectively plan to finance the business as it grows? Why or why not?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

They end up trying to do too much for too many, which dilutes their focus and often the quality of their product or service. His book “ Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business &# was named a 2010 Top 25 Business Book for Business Owners by Inc. The problem is that too many entrepreneurs never learn to say ‘NO!’ magazine.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 23, 2017

Digital ink has been spilled across the interwebs these past two weeks on the issues with different types of venture financings. Priced equity financings make sense as they provide clarity around valuation and ownership dilution, while creating alignment between the investors and founders.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This post is intended to be a dynamic document, and I will attempt to update it from time to time with new questions that may arise or as financing trends evolve. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? It’s a legitimate stage of financing in the venture eco-system as of this writing (October 2017).

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

We will grant him/her X% fully diluted shares up front, and every time he/she makes an introduction, he/she will vest in 100 shares.” Matt is a lawyer representing technology companies through all phases of their lifecycle, from pre-incorporation, seed & VC financings, exit transactions and IPOs (read more). Recent Posts.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The option plan shares available for future issuance typically represent the number of additional options needed for hiring planned up to the point of the NEXT financing (as in we are doing a Series A round now, how many options do we need prior to doing a Series B round). after the financing closes). times more equity than Founder X.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

If a founder’s company raises more than $50,000 in debt or equity financing, excluding funds from the founder, within 18 months of formation, then the founder must pay a tuition fee of $4,500, which is used to cover the Institute’s expenses in providing the program. June 2nd, 2009: Name your future business. Can it be done?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 4, 2012

This is how we described our aims for the series at the outset : Our hope is that the posts (and eventually the book) will be a good resource for anyone who is thinking about how to finance their company and who wants to understand more about the options, including venture capital.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. By deciding to use a consulting CTO on a temporary basis, you avoid getting stalled in the earliest stages.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Every time a startup raises capital, all common shareholders are diluted. All of the estimates displayed above are figures prior to any dilution. As stated earlier, investors will dilute ownership upon nearly every round of financing. So, if o = initial ownership and y = total dilution, x = o * (1 – y).

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www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

If you are a company that is fundraising, keep in mind that there are a few different levers you can pull to change the amount of dilution that the founders will experience. Let’s say you receive a term sheet for a $1 million investment at a $3 million fully diluted pre-money valuation, and you’re kind of disappointed.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2015

Just the other day I had a great conversation with someone who had already raised, had a good product and was making excellent progress--and I thought he was undercutting himself with some really conservative financing plans. I may not have convinced him, but I think he found the conversation helpful and I was happy to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. But over-optimizing for dilution is a bad attribute relative to focusing on creating a big & winning company. It also is how they financed their entry into the United Nations. Shopping.com.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection. Like any issuance of stock or investment, one of the main things a startup should be concerned with is: Is this going to fuck up a future financing ? Conclusion.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. What is branding? Those customer groups differ from each other. The basics.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

3 Dilution. The preferred stock held by investors has (as the name implies) more rights and privileges than the common stock issued to employees. Those new shares are created out of thin air by the company, and will dilute all of the current stockholders. In a startup, dilution happens, and you just need to factor it in.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

I''m all for transparency, but won''t be naming names in this post as I don''t want to put some entrepreneurs in a difficult position. Finally, I have to bring up some bad behavior by a name Sand Hill Road firm (SH). Angel Investors Silicon Valley term sheets venture financing venture capital'

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. Joe Lonsdale.

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aweissman.com

JANUARY 30, 2010

There is an amazing wealth of innovation around early stage venture financing, most of which developed in just the past few years. If not, the value of the exchange fund is diluted. There is an amazing wealth of innovation around early stage venture financing, most of which developed in just the past few years. Newer Post.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The popularity of convertible notes is increasing in the world of startup financing, especially in seed-stage companies. Incoming investors make decisions based on the possible dilution of their investments on ownership and often find themselves surprised by overlooked convertible notes. Ready to add investors to your cap table?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

The finance team understands that content customers are less likely to churn and destabilize revenue flows. Your established structure protects the ideas and process from free-wheeling input that can dilute your message. Customer success personnel know that satisfied customers don’t complain about the same issue over and over again.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially. Investors were becoming nervous and were no longer willing to underwrite new Unicorn-level financings at the drop of a hat. It will also minimize future dilution.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Here’s the problem: Let’s say you have 5 VCs (plus angels but let’s ignore that for now) and each one owns 5% so you took 25% dilution to get the round done. This is largely true because most VCs have a 20% minimum threshold in order to invest so bringing in multiple VCs can be very expensive in terms of dilution.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Not surprisingly, the merger was highly dilutive, particularly to Confinity/PayPal shareholders. I originally got to thinking about this when I received a 485 page information statement on a previously announced merger between Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial. At the IPO, Musk held a 14.2%

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. Co-founders are the highest form of dilution to a business. First Name.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2011

Indeed, preferred stock, as the name suggests, is preferable to (and more valuable than) common stock because it grants certain key rights to the holders, one of which is a conversion right. Conversion Rights What Are Conversion Rights? As many of you know, VC investors are typically issued shares of preferred stock, not common stock.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

His name is Charlie and he responded to our question last week about whether you should stick to the plan or change it. Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. He says, “Hey guys. Great episode.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.

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