Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. Here’s why.
View from Seed
APRIL 27, 2020
Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on. Again, we feel incredibly grateful to engage in this kind of work and to even consider plans like these.
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The Next Web
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
It doesn’t need to be extremely granular with all the minutiae of your expenses, but since employees are most often the overwhelming cost-drivers — and there aren’t too many early on in a company’s life — it’s prudent to build the expense lines on an employee by employee basis. Adjust the model for real-world scenarios.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. His startup focused on providing travel to exotic destinations around the world.
View from Seed
MAY 5, 2015
Board members have a fiduciary duty to look out for the interests of all shareholders specifically (and employees and other stakeholders generally). In the end, seed capital can help a startup get the best possible start in many cases. Board Deck Templates for Startups from NextView Ventures.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.
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