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What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Steve Blank

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. A liquidity event means that the equity (the stock) you sold your investor can now be converted into cash.) Currently M&A is the most likely path for a startup to achieve liquidity. You’ve been funded to get to a liquidity event.

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How much of my business do I have to give to an investor?   

Berkonomics

To grow your business to a size that will be attractive to a VC or angel making an investment now, you’ve got to show that the business will be large enough at the time of the investor’s liquidity event (cashing out) to make the investment attractive at all. So, you’ve got to play with the numbers to determine your level of comfort.

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How much of my business do I have to give to an investor?

Berkonomics

To grow your business to a size that will be attractive to a VC or angel making an investment now, you’ve got to show that the business will be large enough at the time of the investor’s liquidity event (cashing out) to make the investment attractive at all. Remember your employee option allocation.

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Cash is only ONE measure of employee happiness.

Berkonomics

They include an expense account, company car, profit sharing, 401k contributions, medical coverage for dependents, free life insurance, educational payments, extra vacation, relocation expenses, paid trips to industry association meetings, or a small override on revenue from new products developed under the candidate’s watch. .

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Great for visualizing work of product development. BambooHR - Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. project management visually see and interact with your work. Kanbanery â?? Simple online team or personal kanban board. LeanKit Kanban â?? Kanban Pad â?? Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I've been the technical co-founder or first tech employee at three companies in a row (I'm CEO of the fourth). Think instead about the set of capabilities the leadership at your company needs: Great network and reputation to get you intros to investors, partners, employees. For your employees? So it can be done.