This is a Youtube video explanation of a cap (capitalization) table example that is available online. It may take a while get your head around the terminology and concepts involving the option pool and note conversion, and their impact on valuation. It is worth taking time to understand this if you want to see how the option pool and valuation can be played off against each other. Entrepreneurs need to understand this if negotiating with investors.
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Similar topics at:  Convertible Notes, Fundraising, Preferred Stock, Stock Options, Valuation  option pool, post-money, pre-money (Some observations from Gabriel Weinberg) I’ve written before about how the very first email to an angel investor really matters, or at least to this angel investor. It’s very easy to get thrown in a bucket of wannabes or bad first-timers. Here are a few of those red flags from my perspective. Sending an email through a service. My email is really easy to find. Yet you’d be surprised how many people write me cold messages through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Yes, I’m easy to find there too, but I prefer email, and I think most people do too. If you send me a Similar topics at: Common Mistakes, Finding Angels, Money Finders contacting angels, emailing angels There are roughly 265,000 active individual angel investors . If you want to go the route of tapping an angel network — a group made up of up to 150 individual investors who pool their finances and share the due diligence work — there are . In short, there are lots to choose from and . The challenge is finding the right angel investor for you and your business. What a lot of founders don’t realize is that not all angels invest for the same reasons. Backing a startup is a bit like shopping for a car: Do you want a sports car that does zero to 60 in four seconds? A dependable sedan? A Prius t As Obama signs the JOBS Act into law, crowdfunding becomes legal and companies get more flexibility in going public. Here’s the good and the bad. The so-called crowdfunding term essentially means pooling resources or money together from a group. Under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, small companies will have the ability to raise up to $1 million in equity on an annual basis through crowdfunding, without having to go through the rigorous disclosure process by the Securities and Exchange Commission. To be sure there are a host of unknown answers regarding crowdfunding, but as more companies take to social media to tell their story and gain a following, the strategy could become a major player in the (This article is focused on raising money for startups with an African focus but it contains some great generic advice on for all startups on needed steps before spending considerable time in fundraising.) This first step is actually common everywhere, entrepreneurs think they deserve financing when its just an idea in their head all the way up to startups showing significant progress but are probably stalling and need significant technical/business help and capital infusion to grow their venture. Also fundraising takes a significant a I’ve personally raised $1 million from AngelList for my startup, and have helped dozens of other startups raise $3 million more. I’ve referred more than 20 startups to AngelList, vouched for a dozen other investors and am ranked as one of the top connectors on the site. Try a similar strategy by adhering to the following steps. Many “angel” investors, who put their own money into small start-ups at a very early stage, previously worked at technology icons that are known for minting millionaires, like Google Inc. and PayPal. But Silicon Valley’s angel-investor scene is far from homogenous, new data show. Everybody knows that when you raise money at a startup your ownership percentage of the company goes down. The goal is to have the value of the startup go up by enough that you own a smaller percentage of a much larger business and therefore your total personal value goes up. The simplest way to think about this is: If you own 20% of a $2 million company your stake is worth $400,000. If you raise a new round of venture capital (say $2.5 million at a $7.5 million pre-money valuation, which is a $10 million post-money) you get diluted by 25% (2.5m / 10m). So you own 15% of the new comp Today, I’m talking with David Rose, who founded AngelSoft, now , in 2004. Gust provides a platform where angel investors and entrepreneurs can connect and discuss ventures. Originally created with angel investors’ needs in mind, Gust now has more than 750 investment organizations worldwide using its platform to manage deal flow and other day-to-day tasks. Over 125,000 startups have, through Gust, worked with more than 35,000 individual investors on their ventures. The company is based in New York City, has a development office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a European office in Pa |
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