Know Your Metrics: Startup Financial Statements
In order to get a pulse on how a startup is doing, it’s important to be able to read and digest their financial statements.
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Building Your Startup Board
For any company, the board of directors can have a major impact on direction and growth. As such, we would urge startups to begin assembling their…
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Taking a Dip in the Option Pool
The option pool can be a point of contention in negotiating terms. We’re walking through what an option pool is, how they work, and how they…
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How Do Venture Capital Funds Work?
For new investors, venture capital funds may be a bit confusing. While they are similar to other investment funds, their aims and strategy are quite different.
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Building Wealth Through Pre-IPO Investing
As many companies are staying private longer, pre-IPO investing on the secondary market has been trending up.
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Picking the Right Accelerator for Your Startup
In order to get the most out of a startup accelerator program, choosing the right accelerator for your business is essential.
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Learning the Equity Alphabet: Regulation A, Regulation CF, and Regulation D
Between Regulation A, Regulation CF, and Regulation D, making sense of which type of equity raise may be right for your startup can overwhelming, which is…
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What’s the Difference Between an IPO and a Direct Listing?
Direct Listing vs. IPO: Two Different Ways to Go Public While IPOs are often eagerly anticipated, it's not the only way for companies to go public.…
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Stock Splits & Reverse Splits: Do They Matter?
As a couple of our portfolio companies have gone public this year, we’ve received quite a few questions about stock splits, reverse stock splits, and what…
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