It's important for both founders and investors to grasp how your startup's cap table evolves during funding rounds. Cake Equity happily presented one of the most technical topics for Start Ups: Cap Table Modeling.
Being one of our most popular event, here you can review what Jason Atkins (Cake Equity, [ Ссылка ]), Nan Meka ( Simply Wall St) and David Kenney (Hall Chadwick) talked about and questions they answered about Cap Table.
Important timestamps:
4:25 What is Cap Table?
8:19 Round and equity issuance modeling
8:38 Convertible modelling for safes and notes
9:19 Exit waterfalls, helps you visualize distribution of proceeds
13:02 Liquidation preferences
17:59 Rules of thumb, things to avoid
22:04 Bootstrapping vs Pre-Seed
22:35 Resource management
22:34 Dilution
24:39 Tricks and traps with typical rounds
29:27 Cap Table Goals
31:24 Safes and Con Note traps
45:24 Loan conversion is the convertible note
45:42 Full Cap Table after the round
46:14 Equity plans
46:25 Warrants
49:00 Can you use NTA as a valve for the ESOP?
49:04 How to calculate valuations?
51:15 Options budget51:57 Plans before you raise your money
53:36 Managing options budget, Increasing the size of the pool
58:04 Options vs Shares
58:57 Tax implications, defer your tax implication for employees
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GUIDES:
Cap table for startups: essential things founders need to know [ Ссылка ]
Blog:
Master your equity story with Cake's cap table modeling 2.0
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