www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Start-up | Mondays. How to Incorporate.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

If an incubator offers your startup $25,000 in exchange for 6% equity, the pre-money valuation is a whopping $391,667. Rather than assign a monetary value to the intangibles, a startup should instead assign an equity percentage value to intangibles like mentorship. Other incubators may want to set up an option pool.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Help, please.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The use of a cap table for a company comes into play when it has to track the total amount of shares, the value of shares, and the equity ownership of all the shareholders. The data of the company, such as debt and the company’s equity ownership, is laid out with the help of a cap table. Convertible notes. Example of a cap table.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. As a corporate lawyer for 15+ years, I just wanted to echo your sound advice that co-founders should impose reasonable vesting restrictions on the equity issued them. Date first.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Most of their companies would probably give 6% of their shares to YC for free, just to participate in the program. If your company hasn’t raised a Series A, increase the advisor’s equity by roughly 30%-50% to account for dilution from seed investors, Series A investors, option pools, swimming pools, and the like.

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