Dilution is rarely the result of a single financing. It compounds across rounds, option grants, pool refreshes, and structural decisions made years apart. Founders often track dilution as a snapshot—before the round, after...
Restricted shares vesting determines what founders actually own, not what appears on the capitalization table. In the prior post, we examined how share classes and economic rights define payout priority and control. This post...
A cap table is often dismissed as a spreadsheet or an administrative artifact reviewed during diligence. In practice, it is far more consequential. It is the single source of truth for your company’s ownership and the...
In our previous discussions, we treated the term sheet as your company’s blueprint and SAFEs or convertible notes as instruments of deferred pricing. We are now at the stage where those abstract promises land on your...
In our previous discussions, we established that rights—not labels—determine economic and control outcomes and that ownership reflected on a spreadsheet is often an illusion” until it is earned through vesting. To...
Most founders understand their ownership in percentage terms. Far fewer understand how that ownership actually converts into cash at exit. Liquidation preferences sit quietly in term sheets, often dismissed as “standard”...
In the early stages of building your company, you likely viewed seed-stage financing as a series of necessary but isolated administrative hurdles. Whether you utilized Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFEs) or...