Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
You can find a good start-up lawyer to help or if you want to do it on the cheap there are tons of websites you can find on the Internet to help. 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. Pick the founding members.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2014
You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Sometimes, however, there’s an existing code base that one co-founder brings.
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Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Sometimes, however, there’s an existing code base that one co-founder brings.
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Internet and Online Business. If youre offering the consultant stock options, youll also want to take into consideration what the exercise price is going to be and how long the options will be outstanding. Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
I know that a lot of VCs had roadkill in the Internet Video 1.0 When you consider that they’ll also want a 15-20% option pool in the company you’re talking about founders owning as little as 40% after just one round. I have personally seen some VCs who decide not to support certain industries they once had backed.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Sometimes, however, there’s an existing code base that one co-founder brings.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . The Long Term Stock Exchange is building out a set of tools for founders for managing their cap tables, 409A valuations, cash on hand, options pool, investor relations, etc.
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