Version One Ventures

MAY 22, 2018

If you find yourself in the fortunate position of being oversubscribed, you’ll likely look to build the best investor base and find the right partners for your journey. How do you decide who you should have in your cap table? How do all the partners of the fund feel? What is important to you? What’s the investor’s thesis?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

One of the most important decisions for a founder of an early stage company is deciding who should be on the cap table. We’ve written about doing your due diligence on investors and funds to make sure you find the right partners for the journey.

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Cap Table Due Diligence Early Stage Portfolio 350

OnlyOnce

MAY 26, 2022

Do you spend a lot of your time dealing with finance-related issues like fundraising, debt, investors, or cap table questions? Are you on the hot seat during board meetings on finance-related questions, metrics, runway, cash burn, or other issues? Do they spend time in-market with customers, partners, or vendors?

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Cap Table Forecast Finance Metrics 62

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. Some people find this elitist?—?I 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.” —The Geto Boys, Mind Playing Tricks on Me.

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Management Cap Table Balance Sheet Bankruptcy 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. People, not just metrics. Your customers and your investors like partners? We're going to treat our hosts like partners. Your metrics are your master.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. You can go read about it on Wikipedia and whatnot, but it's sort of a metric that economists use to look at the various countries of the world and measure how economically free those places are. That's an important piece.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113