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Keep Term Sheets Simple for Quicker Cash to Spend

Startup Professionals Musings

The price is the percent of ownership given to the investor, calculated as “investment/post-money valuation.” The pre-money valuation is company value today, while the post-money valuation is the pre-money valuation plus the investment amount. Define equity type.

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Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

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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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A Primer on Angel Investment ‘Simple Term Sheets’

Startup Professionals Musings

The price is the percent of ownership given to the investor, calculated as “investment/post-money valuation.” The pre-money valuation is company value today, while the post-money valuation is the pre-money valuation plus the investment amount. Define equity type.

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Keep Term Sheets Simple for Quicker Cash to Spend

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The pre-money valuation is company value today, while the post-money valuation is the pre-money valuation plus the investment amount. Define equity type. Seat on the board. But the lead angel would certainly ask to be given a seat.

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The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds

Feld Thoughts

A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. ” They are running out of money.