Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

When it comes time to convert the notes, these entrepreneurs face ‘sticker shock’ about their post-financing ownership. The bottom line: Startup CEOs/Founders need to do the projected capitalization table math on an as-converted, post-money basis from Day 1, before issuing any notes and modeling various possible future scenarios.

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Post-Money Valuation Valuation Cap Table Covenant 49

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to Yahoo Finance , less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns currently reach their goals, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. The infrastructure to manage thousands of shareholders in a single company, called the stock market for public companies, is missing. by either angel groups or VCs alone.

Equity 180

Equity Due Diligence Angel Groups Liquidity Event 180

www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. I can tell you that, among other problems, any uncertainty in the capitalization table when the company is acquired will be resolved squarely and unequivocally in favor of the buyer.

Equity 40

Equity Vesting Silicon Valley Intellectual Property 40

www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Some finance guy said "12k a month minimum" and someone replied "I must be living in abject poverty" and its true. If I grant equity to a outsourced developer for future services after his initial contract with me is delivered on, where on the capitalization table do I place him? Founder or employee?

Equity 40

Equity Employee Founder Cofounder 40

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This is all incorporated into a document called a Cap Table. . A cap table will help you in the strategic management of business decisions. 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.

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Cap Table Pre-Money Valuation Stock Options Option Pool 112

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Also, most companies try to keep all employees on the same terms, and there are good management reasons to do that. At a minimum, do your own personal finance homework so you know how much salary you need to live and not spend your savings. The other factor is the "cap table" (capitalization table, or summary of who owns what stock).

Equity 56

Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

I’ve done this with lots of founders and we usually glaringly see skills missing like financial management or HR managements or digital marketing or whatever those things are. They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing.

Incubator 60

Incubator Email Startup Oregon 60