Article written by Kip McClanahan and Morgan Flager of Silverton Partners. This article originally appeared in the Austin Business Journal. Compensation is a multi-dimensional challenge for founders and the first few executives in early-stage startups. The most important principles to remember as issues present themselves are fairness — including the perception of fairness — [...]
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Startup, Get Down: How To Throw A Profitable SXSWi Party
While Austin’s SxSW has been over for a few months, one of our portfolio companies uncovered a very interesting way to throw a brand-name building, link-generating party and actually have it make money. This is the story of how they did it; this post was originally written by Rachel Greenfield of SpareFoot (rachel [at] sparefoot [dot] [...]
Start-up Capitalization Table Template
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 [...]
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. [...]
