Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We were targeting to raise around $3 million in investment capital. So far it sounded like a fair deal, considering we didn’t yet have a product developed – only a pitch deck, a business plan, a fleshed-out idea, and some user interface (UI) designs of what we thought our online product would look like. Our attorney should have known.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

As an entrepreneur, your goal when raising financing is to get several term sheets — the documents describing the terms and conditions of financing. One of the worst positions you can be in during a financing is to have investors interested, but be too far short of your goal. Determine how much you need to raise.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I’ve often found it helpful to have on hand a simple model showing the impact of each financing stages on all team members, suitable for sharing with everyone in the company. In particular, this model is designed to help all team members understand the impact of dilution on their options.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Wondering what a cap table is, its importance, and how you can maintain it to expand your business? What is a cap table? A cap table is also known as the capitalization table. This is a table that outlines the company’s capitalization. How to create a cap table. Let’s dive in.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. They never worked with startups who needed to put together private placement memos for investors, capitalization tables and all of those things. For example, on our first company, our idea was not to do the social bookmarking.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. Site produced by Andrew Koyfman with design from Rob Hunter. venture investments since 1987. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc.

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