The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There are a lot of variables to go into calculating a fair equity split a startup team. If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. How do you manage your equity split in your company?

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M+ of committed capital under management. You will be based in the NYC office. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. About NextView. A Final Note.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Advisory Board members are often paid in a balance of equity (stock options) and cash (“cash” is the industry term for money wired to your bank account). If you’re really bold, join an early-stage company (seed stage, Series A), but have conviction about the team. A Board of Directors has a formal and legal role.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management. Our team comes from a range of backgrounds in terms of ethnicity / gender / nationality and we are firm believers that diverse points of view strengthen our collective intellectual equity and long-term performance.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. Depending on what a startup needs, the cost and equity share will vary — ranging from a full scope of projections, a business plan, and modeling, to a simple consulting partnership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S. through Grants.gov , an online directory of more than 1,000 federal grant programs that don’t look for equity or payback.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. In short, in my 6.5 Granted, 6.5 You lose way more than you win.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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View from Seed

MAY 19, 2015

To me, the most exciting (and most perilous) times in a company’s lifecycle are the early first stages when it is just getting off the ground. At the seed stage, the founder’s or co-founders’ role in the company is essential and therefore carries a great deal of risk for missteps.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

As startups raised more capital and needed to compete for the best talent, they’ve been forced to give both real equity and pay market rates. The post Seed-Stage Startups: Beware the “Stickiness Squeeze” appeared first on NextView Ventures. See Angel List’s breakout here for current rates.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 17, 2016

A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. In general, I’m a big fan of convertible notes or convertible securities for seed stage founders. Flexibility With an equity round, there’s a specific amount of money you are raising.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. million in seed stage deals in 2010.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From traditional equity VC, Flexible VC borrows the option to pursue and reap the rewards of an outsized exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. Equity Ownership. Yes, typically preferred equity. On average, founders own just 43% of equity by Series B , declining thereafter. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Prior to the growth stage, your company valuation is limited to goodwill based on intellectual property and team experience, since you have no revenue.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor. 10 Insights That Helped Me Level Up as a Seed Stage VC — Part 1 and Part 2. I recommend join the communities I list at Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor , in particular Confluence and GenZMafia.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

Quick answer: convertible equity (or a convertible security) is convertible debt without the repayment feature at maturity or interest. Over the past few years, convertible debt has emerged as a quick and inexpensive method for startup companies to raise money from angel investors and early stage venture funds. Background. The problem.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Glen Mello: Venture debt is a good complement to equity. It’s generally got a lower cost compared to equity capital and can help support growth. So it makes it a lot more challenging when you have debt on the books that isn’t as longer term as equity. NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. But there are also going to be those companies that require capex and growth equity (Zynga, Facebook, etc). I believe that the different stages need to right-size, but you will always need the various stage investors.

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Austin Startup

MAY 8, 2018

Background reading: Founder Compensation: Cash, Equity, Liquidity Fatal Errors in Early Startup Hiring Early Hires: Options or Stock Given how deeply involved we are with early-stage startups hiring their first key employees, I figured it would be helpful to outline a few key principles to help entrepreneurs navigate the topic.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 26, 2018

Newchip, the online platform that aggregates crowdfunding deals, announced recently that it has closed on $2 million in seed funding. Austin-based Newchip also launched an equity-based crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder. Wefunder is an equity-based crowdfunding platform that lets people invest as little […].

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Our unique approach to investing, coupled with a pioneering spirit, provides the vision to guide early stage growth companies beyond today and toward future success. A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund. That drives every decision we make.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

But by far the biggest issue is that the very essence of public markets (and what makes them “public”) is that the SEC mandates an enormous amount of transparency, including complete quarterly financial statements, complete publication of the company’s cap table including all significant shareholders, and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Prior to the growth stage, your company valuation is limited to goodwill based on intellectual property and team experience, since you have no revenue.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. I advocate treating them like a co-founder in every way except when they join and how much equity they get. So why do inexperienced (as entrepreneurs), ultra-skilled CTOs fall into the trap of engaging a business partner too early?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Our returns are obviously very good, but in no way unique in today’s venture markets, especially among emerging managers that invest at the seed stage. Note: TVPI stands for total value of investments net of fees / invested capital; DPI stands for distributions (= cash to LP’s) / invested capital). So, is 10x the new 3x ?

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YFS Magazine

JULY 20, 2015

Lately, more founders are inquiring about convertible equity. Some wonder if it is a good replacement for convertible debt (which has become ubiquitous in seed stage startup funding).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed.

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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.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

But if you read the whole article you glean more insight… the entire public equity markets have sunk in the last 3-4 months. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. What will happen for the startup IPO market? Like everybody else, I’m lacking a crystal ball. Author howerl.

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Rob Go

JULY 29, 2014

When we make our seed investments, we have a strong preference for preferred equity rounds and forming a board of directors that meets regularly. But we think they are important even at the seed stage of a business. We tend to suggest that seed stage companies convene with their board ever 6-8 weeks.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. To provide relevant perspective, listing past convertible note(s) and/or equity financing(s) including total round size and valuation (caps) is helpful. Here we are, at (one of) the final slides.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. Equity Traditionally, investors have invested in companies to receive equity, or shares in a company. The concept of equity rounds (also called priced rounds) is very straightforward. The results are binary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Early-stage startup. Super Angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Prior to the growth stage, your company valuation is limited to goodwill based on intellectual property and team experience, since you have no revenue.

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