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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. But these people seldom make retirement money from the stock options on these companies. It is hard enough to have a great financial outcome when you start with 100%.

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Pay non-cash incentives to service providers?    

Berkonomics

Service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time).

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” 3) Raise capital. 10) Report.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about “ The one number you should know about your equity grant “ The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever – it doesn’t matter – just the % matters). Percent of the outstanding option pool: meaningless.

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Founders Should Set Aside More Equity for Their Team & “Split the Pain” With Investors

Hunter Walker

But employee option pool is important enough that I wanted to briefly expand upon my comment above. Since Homebrew typically leads/co-leads seed rounds, we assist in helping founders design and manage their pool against their hiring forecast. As you can see, Weekend VC Twitter gets pretty wild and crazy!!!!

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

just a bare-bones minimum design that made sense to me. The first paper design But in the library that day I began to see something coming together. Photo of the first online design in the library I shared my first design with my developer friend Eyesodike, who was then working for VISA as a developer. So one day?—?I

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.   The answer to that, in a word, is risk, - the uncertainty of outcome.