Entrepreneurship

Valuing Early Stage Equity: An Optimism-Weighted Approach

Cap Table Simulator

An interactive cap table simulator to help answer the eternal question: what will…

Culture: Drafting your team’s Constitution

Culture matters — but why, and what does it even mean?

For many organizations — large/small, traditional/techy — culture is oft defined by a list of words describing shared values. Many include words you might expect, like…

Parsable Raises $20M from Global Industrial Firms to Eliminate Paper

I’m honored that Parsable has received an investment of $20 million from a consortium…

Read this book.

I thought I’d learned what I needed to know about negotiation. I went to a prestigious business school and took their negotiation class, learning all about Getting to Yes, BATNA, and other fancy acronyms. I’d also bargained my fair share in both work and personal life.

Should I exercise my options?

One of the favorite things I get to do as an entrepreneur is to add a new owner to the companies I’ve founded: an employee shareholder.

Employees most often get granted options (vs. shares). Since options are more complicated beasts, it’s valuable for…

What does this financing do to my ownership?

It’s fundraising season (it’s always fundraising season), and I’m finding myself helping my awesome entrepreneur friends navigate the exciting “what does this do to my cap table” simulation process.