View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Think of your seed capital as a way to empower you to reach that important milestone in order to raise the next round immediately after … not leave you just shy of the interim prize. The post How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise? For instance, are you anticipating that big, key customer in less than a year?
View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel). Company Building.
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David Teten
JULY 10, 2019
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 agree on an equity split, vesting, and initial compensation structure. And how do you split the equity? This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage.
David Teten
MAY 7, 2019
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? Here’s How to Do Your Due Diligence First. This work is unpaid. Sounds great!
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2013
Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders. Take a small amount of equity (usually ~6%) and overall have terms that are favorable to entrepreneurs. Feel free to drop me an email if you want to learn more about joining GAN. Not every accelerator is/could be/would be a member in GAN, nor is it designed that way.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
You can also subscribe via email here — we send one email per week at most. – Flowchart: Seed VC Decision Tree (how one seed investor gets to yes or no). – Checklist: Critical to-do’s immediately after raising seed capital. – Questions to ask when dividing founder equity.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 12, 2011
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. Feeling overwhelmed, Dick emailed his friend Josh, the CEO of an early-stage startup in Boulder, to see how they figured out all of this stuff.
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