techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. As we wrote last December, the investment tool lets accredited investors put as little as $1,000 each into startup companies that it’s created an investment vehicle for. Austin, TX.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Anyone who has ever spent time with Apoorva knows how smart he is, but we were too focused on how how operationally tough it would be to build up such a shopping delivery network. Carta went on to become the standard for cap table management and is a unicorn many times over. . Carta (prev. Philip Krim reached out cold in 2013.

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Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 201

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It is helping with recruiting by leveraging my networks and experience in a particular domain. 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.

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

This time, I was looking more closely at Keen’s cap table and various financial events, like raising Series A, becoming profitable, and company acquisition. We asked the founders to talk us through the financials, help us complete the detailed cap table, and discuss the offers together. What is the difference between.5%

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

A founder can create a broader support network by allocating what’s left of their round to a larger number of angel investors who are likely to be just as helpful as a small check from a fund that feels like they got sub-par ownership. But taken to the extreme, you would have rounds with only one lead and almost no one else on the cap table.

Syndicate 267

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

Genuine VC

MAY 20, 2013

VCs who swear publicly that they’ll never make an investment with less than 20% ownership show up on cap tables in the teens… the 20% pronouncements are just posturing for negotiation. They contribute in ways from opening their personal networks to providing counsel during important strategic decisions.

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Venture Capital Cap Table Portfolio Early Stage 244

VC Adventure

JULY 27, 2011

We meet with various company managers, talk to other people in industry to get their take, call current and prospective customers, exercise our own network of contacts to get background on the idea and team, perform reference checks on key management, etc. Before Foundry makes an investment we perform extensive due diligence.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Cap Table Distribution 48

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2019

Typically, the most useful form of diversity ends up being in network and skillset. In terms of network, you want to prioritize recruiting, industry, and fundraising networks (most likely in that order). In order to accomplish the things above, you will probably want to include more than 1–2 investors on your cap table.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Lead Investor 202

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Maybe the CEO got his cousin from Omaha to be their lawyer or theres been some serious messing around with the cap table. A Large Number of Ex-Employees With social networks like LinkedIn, its easy to get a rough idea of how many people work at a given company. Either way, its a sign that something is amiss.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 41

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

The idea being that there’s economic opportunity in this segment that’s not being captured today, and there’s a chance to start a virtuous cycle where the investments they make will likely include folks in their networks, who will also hire people in *their* networks, and everyone succeeds together.

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Silicon Valley Cap Table IPO .Net 127

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

It allows you to truly focus on your product/idea instead of cap tables and keeping investors happy. There are amazing groups like Startup America and Lean Start Up that hold meet-ups for entrepreneurs to network at and collaborate. Consider working part-time as a transition into entrepreneurship. Have an original idea.

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Cap Table Bootstrapping Naming America 162

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 20, 2019

On the other hand, some people try and pad the cap table with a bunch of big names or industry vets, even if their check size is small, just to build the network. Maybe it’s an e-mail or maybe it’s just a quarterly phone call that everyone on the cap table can dial-in to. 4) Sometimes, they can surprise you.

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Cap Table Later Stage Hiring Founder 108

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 20, 2024

Most of the criteria I listed above is all about being someone the very best and highest potential founders want on their cap table—and that’s the most important path to having great returns. Going from an angel to a fund manager is a huge jump—as is going from a junior person at a fund to the main person at your own fund.

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Deal Flow Syndicate Syndication Cap Table 147

Hunter Walker

MARCH 14, 2019

All the disruption can be pretty jarring to an entrepreneur, especially in situations where the exiting partner represents the top line on your cap table. You’ll often need the support – both structurally and symbolically – of some other investors on the cap table to make the case for some of the ideas below to work.

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Cap Table Dilution Silicon Valley Portfolio 109

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Most programs culminate with a Pitch Day and Investor Networking Event where the companies present their newly defined and expanded growth playbook. . Limited amount of existing debt and a clean cap table”. Apply for funding. Requirements for funding consideration: Companies with a minimum of $50k in MRR.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs. Some respondents use specialist virtual data room providers; Intralinks or SecureDocs were used by 8% of respondents.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Anytime the financial model indicates that SayAhh will run out of cash, determine how you will raise capital to ensure liquidity and be sure to properly account for the debt or equity transaction on the balance sheet and Cap Table. This is where developing a network of trusted and qualified mentors comes in handy.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Cap Table Early Stage 137

Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. You lose influence as larger investors come into the cap table and start throwing their weight around. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They then, in turn, brought that software into their small businesses, their sub-groups within companies, and provided the kindling of distribution within work-related networks. It exploits social networks and reputations at work for using the most cutting-edge tools. Superhuman embodies this trend. There are many reasons for this.

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Cap Table Finance Database Software 113

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2012

Look, I definitely come from the school of being willing to forgo the exact details of the business plan in favor of building a network or a great product--but I'm thinking big picture economics here. I hope I'm totally wrong, because YES, the CMS needs to change in a tablet world that is much more participatory and visual.

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Cap Table Sales Cycle Venture Capital Curation 100

Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

3/ Carta Just Starting Out: One of the main opportunities for Carta (formerly eShares) is to pick up where CrunchBase left off, but more from the cap table as a starting point. Today in 2019, this deal information among the top VC brands is only really moving through smaller, trusted networks.

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Cap Table Private Equity Stealth Portfolio 123

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that weve collectively developed.

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Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 78

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Or ask your cap table who is the best “XYZ” that they know and give them some skin in the game. They become another recruiting/networking vector for you to tap judiciously. Ask her if there’s someone senior in her career that’s been a great manager, and if so, bring them on as an equity-compensated advisor to your company.

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Hiring Cap Table Equity Dividend 85

OnlyOnce

JULY 14, 2022

I wrote a little bit about the experience of being a multi-time founder in this post where I talked about the value of things like a hand-picked team, hand-picked cap table, experience that drives efficient execution, and starting with a clean slate. They have an Easier Time Recruiting team members and investors.

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Cap Table Founder Portfolio Finance 62

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

There are often little to no network effects, so your competitors affect you less. But unless you have found fast growth channels, your people and marketing dollars end up not being put to very efficient use, and you are actually no better off than if you had bootstrapped your company but you have given away more of your cap table.

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Bootstrapping Cap Table Salary .Net 90

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 30, 2022

What there isn’t a whole lot of: Early stage investors with institutional lead check experience (and a small support team, large networks, etc), who are investing their own capital, in a flexible manner, and then working post-investment to provide additional ongoing support. This is Homebrew Forever. Why aren’t there many of these?

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Cap Table Venture Capital Cofounder Portfolio 92

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

HW: You recently launched Coalition Operators, a venture firm + operator/advisor network to really help startups with more than just capital. In the process of investing, we became rather obsessed with helping founders build more diverse and impactful cap tables. Now in 2022, we’ve taken both of these efforts to the next level.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage San Francisco 123

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. The iPhone was released.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re not showing up at all the events, putting out content, constantly networking, generating enough deal flow—more specifically enough high-quality deal flow—being able to co-invest next to experienced professionals can really boost your funnel. Less than that and you need something else to bring to the table.

Portfolio 103

Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 103

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Adam Struck brought on significant additional capital from his network. One investor, Morgan Johnson of Nucleus, wound up spending so much time helping to coordinate negotiations with some of the potential new investors as well as bringing new capital to the table, that he built up a lot of trust from Brian and Jackie.

Cap Table 92

Cap Table Cofounder Valuation .Net 92

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

That’s how it feels when your hot deal from two years ago winds up running low on cash and gets into a pay-to-play round that wipes out the cap table. You have a network of journalists that reach out to you for your insight and expertise. But I thought I was good!?” You have the preparation and the best practices.

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Non-Compete Cofounder Cap Table Reputation 97

Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Unlike many startups who will go out of business if they aren’t able to raise another round, Text IQ seems to have a more specific need with this raise; namely, to get certain skills, expertise and networks around the table and invested at different level as they build their business Through our work with Indie.vc

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Cap Table Burn Rate Dilution Bootstrapping 40

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

I thought it might be helpful to provide transparency on how we and many of our VC peers think about optimizing the cap table for our companies. . Many VCs and family offices market themselves based on their network, internal resources, and other levers to accelerate value creation. . Fundraising is burdensome.

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 12, 2018

Building a company by yourself can be challenging without a strong network around you. What happens if they don’t work out after six months, yet they hang around forever on the cap table, through an equity stake they never really earned? We often see single founders slogging it out on their own.

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Cofounder Founder Vesting Cap Table 60