Your start-up’s capitalization table (who owns what amount of different types of stock) is an important reporting tool for company execs, the board and investors. Having a clean, easy-to-maintain cap table makes reporting to all audiences much easier. This quick post covers start-up cap table creation, maintenance and reporting using a Google Docs spreadsheet and [...]
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2012 Example Investor Pitch Deck and Discussion
This is the updated, 2012 version of the ReOverthinking start-up pitch deck; since the first version was written in 2009, this post and it’s predecessors has been read on average 50 times a day…often more than that. I really hope this indicates the number of entrepreneurs that are thinking about or working on a start-up. [...]
Questions to ask before and during a VC pitch in 2012
This is a precursor to the Example Investor Pitch, 2012 version, that will be posted next week (yes, I’ve been promising that for year now). Pitching investors is part art and part science. The goal here is to make the science part well understood, dissected and discussed. The good news is there is real learning [...]
The Five Internet Mega-brands of 2000
Here are a couple of updates from the Global Internet Primer for today. This one is a keeper: The Five Internet Mega Brands: It’s interesting that, really, only Amazon is still innovating and would qualify as a serious “brand.” And of course, this is before Amazon could spell PUBLIC CLOUD. Also interesting that I don’t [...]
Global Internet Primer – from June 2000
Full disclosure: I tend to save too much “stuff.” Old start-up T-shirts, BYTE magazines from the late 80′s, the exterior signage from past start-ups (true: BroadJump) and other relatively priceless memorabilia. I recently realized that part of my collection includes this 725 page collection of research and presentations from Morgan Stanley, published in June of 2000: [...]
