Cap Table Finance Metrics 
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 2, 2017
This keeps them aligned with their investors since a $250m exit with modest venture financing raised can be wonderful for all parties, but the same transaction can look awful if your last round was $60m on $300m pre! Here the acquisition becomes more metric-driven and the assumptions around growth and multiples drive the offer.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.
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View from Seed
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Examples of housekeeping include the following list, though not every item will appear every time: Finance: Cash out date, burn rate, 409A valuation, cap table, common/preferred stock dashboard. Finance is mission critical, for instance – it just appears on a recurring basis. The seed stage is all about traction.
VC Adventure
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Your KPIs should cover the key financial and operating metrics (and health) of your business and the department level reporting should include functional level KPIs followed by some bullets that outline key areas for discussion at the meeting. Sometimes this is FYI, but often these are areas for feedback and certainly for deeper discussion.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.
Version One Ventures
MAY 22, 2018
How do you decide who you should have in your cap table? Lastly, dig down into how an investor behaved during new financing rounds or during exits. The post The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table? What is important to you? What reverse pitch resonated with you?
View from Seed
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Yes, there are intermittent points of feedback along the way, like valuation marks from subsequent rounds of financing. Calibrated against the firm’s overall velocity (which can vary), this metric is a tell-tale about a Partner’s standing with their peers. As a result, paper markups are weak and temporary signals of feedback, at best.
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