Remove Cap Table Remove Hiring Remove Startup
article thumbnail

How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Every town has firms that focus on startups – find them.

article thumbnail

Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. How VC’s Calculate Valuation : We walked through a standard deal where you raise $1 million at a $3 million pre-money valuation leading to a $4 million post money valuation. That’s normal.

Valuation 405
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

What to expect before accepting the offer to become Engineer #1 at a startup

The Next Web

That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Cap tables sound intimidating. What’s everyone else getting?

Engineer 129
article thumbnail

Not All Startup and Venture Experience is Equal #getoffmylawn

This is going to be BIG.

Needless to say, I have a fair amount of startup event experience. Others talked as if they were the ones doing the deals--even though they''re just the ones making the cap tables in Excel. Talking about your acqui-hire as anything but a failure is just plain fraud. This week, I''ve got three things on the docket.

article thumbnail

Seed Stage Founders Undervalue Angels With Marketing & Comms Expertise

Hunter Walker

Why Bringing These Two Skillsets Onto Your Cap Table Early Is Worth It. In addition to our dollars, we are eager to help founders with the construction of their cap table, not just generically with the highest profile folks available, but more specifically where they might get some help along the way. Nor Do VCs.

article thumbnail

How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. Let me paint the picture for you: We were about two months into our startup idea.

article thumbnail

Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

“Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio. Hunter Walk: Textio , the startup you founded and CEO’ed until a few months ago, is almost 10 years old. As I see it, startups have two major advantages. That leads me to the second advantage that startups have.

Cofounder 106