Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

Will they tailor your vesting to your contribution as a founder? They understand that now’s not the time to hire a senior VP of Sales to start to scale the sales force or to look for a finance department to create income statements that say zero each month. Will The VC Tailor Your Vesting to Your Contribution?

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You have a vested interest in making sure it works. You have a vested interest in making sure it can support your lifestyle, allow you to quit your job and NEVER work for anyone ever again in your life. Sorry, but you definitely have to pay taxes and report your revenue to the IRS. . Get a sales tax license.

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2011

There comes a time when every business must secure financing to cover their growing needs. Unfortunately the world of finance can be a bit tricky, especially when it comes to business loans. There needs to be a comfortable buffer between what goes out (expenses) and what comes in (revenue). Conditions. About the Author.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Are the logistics manageable? Keep the valuations consistent with company progress.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Determine the allocation of equity among co-founders, early employees or other service providers, and future contributors as applicable, as well as the vesting schedule , if any, that will apply. founders’ shares subject to vesting) and IRS filings for most favorable tax treatment of those shares. Newco, Inc.”)

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Of the cohort that just graduated I think eight are completely self-sufficient and actually revenue positive and another 10 are in Series A round financing. . Kathryn Minshew , a former management consultant at McKinsey , is CEO and co-founder of TheMuse.com , a career platform helping 40+ million people build amazing careers.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

For example, a founder stock purchase agreement is 12+ pages long because founders can, have, and will fail and/or bail on startups (hence the vesting schedule & startup repurchase option). Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

For example, a founder stock purchase agreement is 12+ pages long because founders can, have, and will fail and/or bail on startups (hence the vesting schedule & startup repurchase option). Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

It isnt always possible to have a competitive bidding situation at each financing round so here are some guidelines for funding sources and percentages. Friends & Family can usually raise between $30K and $300K and usually take an interest bearing note that is convertible into stock at the next financing. 5% Managers -.25%

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. I was having trouble managing remote teams and keeping track of their billable hours after working with them for a long, therefore Hubstaff was born. To put it another way, the better you are at risk management, the more profits you will be able to gain.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). Go vest yourself. During this year they. before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x);

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was surprised by this, as I thought Seth was going to discuss another option I’ve seen used with great success: customer financing. Not only are you getting financing with little risk, but with customer financing you have someone in the industry with a vested interest in your product succeeding.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A cap table will help you in the strategic management of business decisions. The popularity of convertible notes is increasing in the world of startup financing, especially in seed-stage companies. It is attractive for seed-stage companies that have not had time to show much traction in terms of their product or revenue.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Once you’ve done that – then. do something else.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” The billions of dollars managed by mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, university endowments, pensions, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and the like need to find returns for their money. ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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