David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. Ravikant explains that this feature is designed to encourage more startups to raise funding from legitimate investors via AngelList. Via SecondMarket, AngelList creates an LLC on the fly into which all the new investors go.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2010

Then they had a five-year P&L statement, balance sheet, cash flow and cap table. In contrast, a business model is designed to be rapidly changed to reflect what you find outside the building in talking to customers. It was an exquisitely crafted plan. Once completed you don’t often hear about people rewriting their plan.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

I’m terrible at product design, so I have a design advisor who literally helps write code when it will make a big difference. You probably don’t need to get the cap table involved in that. You’ll need to keep hiring tech guys. You’ll need to keep getting into sales meetings.

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

That rule was designed to prevent companies under common ownership from accessing SBA funds, but as it applied to PPP, it potentially excluded any venture-backed companies where venture firms owned greater than 20% equity (and where the companies were not affiliated, they just shared a common investor). Exactly what this means isn’t clear.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Capitalization tables—”cap tables” for those who don’t have time for extra syllables—map the balance of power in a company. If org charts are about people power , cap tables are about money power. In reality, however, cap tables are often far more complex. What is a cap table?

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And if you do feel you've found the right person, by all means make their stock contain standard vesting provisions to guard against a bad fit that takes significant amounts of stock off the cap table. Website Design: Aquinox StatCounter. Information Arbitrage by Roger Ehrenberg. All Rights Reserved.

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Gust

JANUARY 30, 2014

Viable business structure and cap table. Proven team (tech/product/design/mark eting/sales/domain/etc.). Competitive advantage. Platform/partnership/bizd ev/API strategy. External validation (ideally traction and/or passionate customers). Reasonable valuation. And the attributes I look for in that entrepreneur are: Integrity.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

But, the VCs did their job—as designed. I have a portfolio where 50% of the investments have founders that come from diverse backgrounds—and yes, I want them to get money from all of the still-active funds on Uber’s cap table that benefitted from the IPO.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

From their website: “We invest via a Shared Earnings Agreement , a new investment model developed transparently with the community, and designed to align us with founders who want to run a profitable business and never be forced to raise follow-on financing or sell their business.” Limited amount of existing debt and a clean cap table”.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

These take considerable time to design, build and populate, and require regular use and “feeding of the beast”, as we call it. Amongst the software tools used to streamline their reporting process, Carta is the most popular tool for tracking private company cap tables.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

2/ Pitch Deck Design: There’s a robust debate about slide decks. I don’t mean to say decks should be overly designed and polished — but they should be clear and substantive. Maybe an accelerator should take lower cap table ownership unless they deliver investors who convert?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Email is a tool nearly everyone uses daily, across devices, from their personal to work life — obviously. 2019, despite its mega-financings, and the news around Softbank’s Vision Fund, still proved to be a fertile year for breakout stories like Notion, Brex, Figma — and of course — Superhuman.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

These days, to even get noticed, you need to be 100% on point with design, product, copy and marketing. With no money, how do you expect to have great design, engineering, copy, marketing, content marketing, customer service, operations, and everything else that comes along with running a successful startup. You’ve raised.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2017

SAFE notes also permit companies to clean up their early-stage cap tables without fear of triggering convertible debt covenants that might prevent them from making needed changes. In this way, our SAFE note is poka-yoke designed to help us screen for entrepreneurs who are in the Sputnik ATX sweet spot: MVP and at least one customer.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

They are typically founder-led, often by a first-time CEO with new or incomplete management teams who need a lot of mentorship/development, and with a diversified cap table of firms that don’t own operating or consulting practices to help guide the scaling process.

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

VC backed startups, by design, are on a different timeline with a different measure of success for all involved. is designed to test whether that sense we have is real. Is it possible to maintain and independent attitude and ethos with an outside investor on your cap table?

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

And the company has only one investor on the cap table but can (if they wish) take advantage of a larger group network. The site was designed with the very simple registration process we are all demanding, including checking a couple of boxes to prove you are an accredited investor. I'm curious as to how the SEC will view FC.

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

but RBI is really designed to be an equity-replacement solution. Lori Smith of White and Williams observes, “The traditional VC is likely going to see these investors in the cap table as a negative. This provides companies with runway as they use an infusion of capital to grow. May make it harder to raise traditional equity VC.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The challenge will be getting the right kind of architecture and design which will scale. All our products Pitching Hacks , Cap Table , and Co-founder Interview. Reply # Tom Cooper · May 31, 2010 re: J – “Can the programming be outsourced?&# Learn more. Our Bookstore See our recommendations.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

And, over-fundraising can trigger a domino effect of complications, from cap-table issues to inflated valuations, which can ruin future fundraising. Specifically when fundraising, it isn't just about gathering a war chest – it's about finding the right relationships with the right investors who offer more than just capital.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. We are a venture capital firm with deep design and development capability, not a design and development shop that sometimes takes equity as compensation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. So how does this work in practice? Entrepreneur : “Sure.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. I remember when I first became CEO, an investor asked me to send him the “cap table.” It’s f@#ked up when your mind’s playin’ tricks on ya.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

7 ] They also spend a little money on a freelance graphic designer. So the totalnumber of new shares issued is 750, and the cap table becomes: shareholder shares percent -VCs 650 33.3angel 200 10.3uncle 50 2.6each founder 250 12.8employee 36* 1.8 So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) 19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) I'm a designer. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. And I was an industrial designer. And so suddenly I became industrial designer at RISD.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

So you're up to the market of all the carriers in your plan design. You have to survive that transition of a founder nuisance that people may feel that's on the cap table and they have to believe that you are the one leading the company and that you can do this and you didn't lose team members talent.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Even the hurricanes in the American south are potentially related to global shipping – the poorly designed new sulfur regulations are likely increasing global warming and fueling hurricanes because we’re allowing the fleet to pump sulfur into the oceans instead of into the air in the name of progress. See you on some cap tables!

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