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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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. [...]
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 [...]
