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Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Let’s say that your ideal clients are CEOs of mid-market companies that need your consulting services. With over 40 years of experience working in the technology realm, Steve loves the thrill of starting and growing a company — he started and sold six companies of his own. Where can you find them? What about smaller fish?

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Mule Team: Building a Startup Portfolio That Will Get You There

The Seraf Compass

When I began making angel investments almost twenty years ago, I had no concept of what it meant to build a portfolio of early stage tech company investments. It wasn’t because I lacked financial savvy. I considered myself a fairly knowledgeable investor in the public markets.

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How the Entrepreneurial Mindset is Empowering Lives Through Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Michigan Senate Bill 0384 ,which prevents insurance companies from denying coverage, increasing premiums or discriminating in any way against living donors with respect to life, disability and long-term care insurance in the state, passed in November 2023.

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How do you calculate and determine what a fair valuation cap is?

Gust

A fair valuation cap is whatever the market will bear. Just keep in mind that it’s only one of several key terms negotiated between startup companies and their investors by which the investor purchases a security instrument (a convertible note or a SAFE) issued and sold by the company to raise money. appeared first on Gust.

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A Founder's Guide to Notes & SAFEs: Caps, Discounts & More

Dream It

The cap is often a negotiated estimate of existing company value and is based, most importantly, on what investors and the startup are willing to agree to. So your cap is actually set at fair market value. A convertible note is a loan that typically converts into shares of preferred stock during your next equity financing.

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Learnings of a CEO: Max Rhodes, Faire

Y Combinator

Every year, 200 YC companies go through our post-accelerator programs. These programs provide founders with the resources they need to build a company all the way through IPO. One area covered extensively is how to scale as a CEO of a growth-stage company. Today, Faire has over 1,000 employees.

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Betting On The Price Of Carbon

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

This chart from our portfolio company Wren’s website shows how we might get there: The bet on the price of carbon is a belief that the world will choose to eliminate its addiction to carbon over the next thirty years and that one way or another carbon emissions will become very costly and carbon capture will become very profitable.

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