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| carta cap table management: REGISTER AND MANAGE A COMPANY IN THE USA WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR HOME COUNTRY Onyema Udeze, 2022-04-06 As a 'creative' or a brand, you can bypass all the payment limitations online and sell your products and services to global customers. The world is a global village now and your physical location does not have to limit whom you can sell your products and services. With the digital economy, you can set up your business so that you can manage it on the go, irrespective of where you travel across the globe. You can travel anywhere you want and run your business from there without any form of payment limitations. With a global brand, you can enrol on accelerator programs and even raise venture capital when the time is right. As a brand, have you ever tried to use some online platforms to reach global customers, only to find out that you cannot use the platform because you need to have a PayPal or Stripe account? Well, there is a way around these challenges. You can get Stripe and PayPal accounts for your brand from the comfort of your home. But you need to incorporate a US business entity - also from the comfort of your home. That is exactly what this book is all about. The book is broken down into four parts: - The first part paints a clear picture of why you need to own your brand in today's world. It will help you decide on the type of business entity to incorporate in the US - a Limited Liability Company (LLC) or a C-Corporation (C-Corp). It will also help you decide on which state to incorporate your business - Delaware or Wyoming. - The second part will take you through the step-by-step process of incorporation and post-incorporation, using a tailor-made solution that makes it all fast and easy. - The third part will cover other things you need to make the best of your US business entity. Such crucial issues as Taxation, Valuation, raising Venture Capital, tapping into the US Labour Force, Migrating to the US, etc. For all these, there are suggestions of tools that will simplify things and keep the entire process lean and agile. - An extra chapter will expose you to over 140 tools that will help you run your business on a global scale - tools spanning Marketing, Bookkeeping & Accounting, Customer Service, Tax, Legal Advisory, Team Collaboration, etc. After reading the book, you will realise that the US is very friendly to foreign-owned business entities. You do not have to pay Federal Income Tax as a foreign business owner. It costs just a nominal amount to register and manage your US business entity right from the comfort of your home. These are some of the benefits of owning a US business: - Payment gateway providers: Access to the best payment providers (such as Stripe and PayPal). - Taxes: Access to tax benefits available to foreign-owned companies in the USA. - Customers in the US: Building trust with global customers by doing business as a US-incorporated company. - Contracts: Signing contracts with US-based clients. - Venture Capital: It is unusual for American investors to invest early-stage capital into companies from other countries without a US presence. - Accelerators: Most US accelerators require startups to have a US parent company. - Immigration: Starting a business in the US makes it easier to obtain a visa or permanent residency later. - US Bank Account: With a US-incorporated company, you can easily keep your money in a US FDIC-insured bank account. - Special Services: Incorporating in the US will give you access to specific platforms or services; such as Amazon. - Simplified Bureaucracy: Business incorporation in the US is one of the easiest in the world. - US-based Talent: With a US-incorporated business, you can easily access the US talent pool. - US Physical Office: With a US-incorporated business, you can easily open a physical location/office in the US when the need arises. |
| carta cap table management: High-Growth Fundraising the Silicon Valley Way Vance Roush, 2023-03-14 Inspire generosity to ignite growth In High-Growth Fundraising the Silicon Valley Way: Unlocking Stock, Crypto, and More for Your Non-Profit, Church, or School, pastor and social benefit fundraising expert Vance Roush delivers an in-depth, hands-on guide to raising money for your church or non-profit through both cash and non-cash donations. You’ll learn new strategies to multiply your fundraising efforts and expand your donations to assets like stock and cryptocurrency. In the book, Roush shows you how to get started building a financial base with early believers and develop a culture of giving by fostering excellence across your organization. You’ll also discover: Strategies for casting a big vision that inspires big donations Ways to build a giving infrastructure that makes generosity frictionless across all types of donated assets Modern and effective fundraising tactics, like building faith and finding efficiencies An essential resource for fundraising professionals, pastors, executive directors of nonprofit organizations, and church leaders, High-Growth Fundraising the Silicon Valley Way will earn a place on the bookshelves of anyone looking to apply exciting new ideas to fund their organizations’ missions and visions. |
| carta cap table management: Dear Founder Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler, 2018-09-11 The Los Angeles Times and USA Today bestseller! Wise, practical, and profitable letters to entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and business owners in every field—from a leading executive, investor, and business founder More than 600,000 new businesses are launched each year. How can a start-up find the funding it needs to survive? When, if at all, should a company go public? How does an entrepreneur build and manage a workplace—and create a lasting legacy? Maynard Webb has helped found, fund, and grow dozens of successful companies, and has driven strategic change at Salesforce, eBay, Everwise, and Visa, among other worldwide corporations. Known for offering savvy insight, encouragement, and a dose of reality in the form of engaging personal letters to a select group of business leaders, Webb now shares his lessons with the rest of America’s aspiring entrepreneurs—at any age and stage in their careers—in Dear Founder. Featuring more than eighty inspiring, informative, and instructive letters, Dear Founder is rich with sound advice on an array of business topics, from turning your idea into a reality to building a culture, to reaching key financial goals. This book is an indispensable guide to navigating the realities, risks, and rewards of being your own boss—and founding the company of your dreams. |
| carta cap table management: Mapping Legal Innovation Antoine Masson, Gavin Robinson, 2021-03-01 The legal sector is being hit by profound economic and technological changes (digitalization, open data, blockchain, artificial intelligence ...) forcing law firms and legal departments to become ever more creative in order to demonstrate their added value. To help lawyers meet this challenge, this book draws on the perspectives of lawyers and creative specialists to analyze the concept and life cycle of legal innovations, techniques and services, whether related to legislation, legal engineering, legal services, or legal strategies, as well as the role of law as a source of creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration. |
| carta cap table management: Venture Deals Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, 2019-08-21 Help take your startup to the next step with the new and revised edition of the popular book on the VC deal process—from the co-founders of the Foundry Group How do venture capital deals come together? This is one of the most frequent questions asked by each generation of new entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, there is little reliable information on the subject. No one understands this better than Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. The founders and driving force behind the Foundry Group—a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage information technology companies—Brad and Jason have been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings. Their investments range from small startups to large Series A venture financing rounds. The new edition of Venture Deals continues to show fledgling entrepreneurs the inner-workings of the VC process, from the venture capital term sheet and effective negotiating strategies to the initial seed and the later stages of development. Fully updated to reflect the intricacies of startups and entrepreneurship in today's dynamic economic environment, this new edition includes revisions and updates to coverage on negotiating, gender issues, ICO’s, and economic terms. New chapters examine legal and procedural considerations relevant to fundraising, bank debt, equity and convertible debt, how to hire an investment banker to sell a company, and more. Provides valuable, real-world insights into venture capital structure and strategy Explains and clarifies the VC term sheet and other misunderstood aspects of capital funding Helps to build collaborative and supportive relationships between entrepreneurs and investors Draws from the author’s years of practical experience in the VC arena Includes extensively revised and updated content throughout to increase readability and currency Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist is a must-have resource for Any aspiring entrepreneur, venture capitalist, or lawyer involved in VC deals as well as students and instructors in related areas of study. |
| carta cap table management: The Customer-Funded Business John Mullins, 2014-07-21 Who needs investors? More than two generations ago, the venture capital community – VCs, business angels, incubators and others – convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. They did so for good reasons: the sometimes astonishing returns they've delivered to their investors and the astonishingly large companies that their ecosystem has created. But the vast majority of fast-growing companies never take any venture capital. So where does the money come from to start and grow their companies? From a much more agreeable and hospitable source, their customers. That's exactly what Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Banana Republic's Mel and Patricia Ziegler did to get their companies up and running and turn them into iconic brands. In The Customer Funded Business, best-selling author John Mullins uncovers five novel approaches that scrappy and innovative 21st century entrepreneurs working in companies large and small have ingeniously adapted from their predecessors like Dell, Gates, and the Zieglers: Matchmaker models (Airbnb) Pay-in-advance models (Threadless) Subscription models (TutorVista) Scarcity models (Vente Privee) Service-to-product models (GoViral) Through the captivating stories of these and other inspiring companies from around the world, Mullins brings to life the five models and identifies the questions that angel or other investors will – and should! – ask of entrepreneurs or corporate innovators seeking to apply them. Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and investors who have actually put these models to use, Mullins goes on to address the key implementation issues that characterize each of the models: when to apply them, how best to apply them, and the pitfalls to watch out for. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur lacking the start-up capital you need, an early-stage entrepreneur trying to get your cash-starved venture into take-off mode, an intrapreneur seeking funding within an established company, or an angel investor or mentor who supports high-potential ventures, this book offers the most sure-footed path to starting, financing, or growing your venture. John Mullins is the author of The New Business Road Test and, with Randy Komisar, the widely acclaimed Getting to Plan B. |
| carta cap table management: Startup CXO Matt Blumberg, 2021-06-09 One of the greatest challenges for startup teams is scaling because usually there's not a blueprint to follow, people are learning their function as they go, and everyone is wearing multiple hats. There can be lots of trial and error, lots of missteps, and lots of valuable time and money squandered as companies scale. Matt Blumberg and his team understand the scaling challenges—they've been there, and it took them nearly 20 years to scale and achieve a successful exit. Along the way they learned what worked and what didn’t work, and they share their lessons learned in Startup CXO. Unlike other business books, Startup CXO is designed to help each functional leader understand how their function scales, what to anticipate as they scale, and what things to avoid. Beyond providing function-specific advice, tools, and tactics, Startup CXO is a resource for each team member to learn about the other functions, understand other functional challenges, and get greater clarity on how to collaborate effectively with the other functional leads. CEOs, Board members, and investors have a book they can consult to pinpoint areas of weakness and learn how to turn those into strengths. Startup CXO has in-depth chapters covering the nine most common functions in startups: finance, people, marketing, sales, customers, business development, product, operations, and privacy. Each functional section has a CEO to CEO Advice summary from Blumberg on what great looks like for that CXO, signs your CXO isn't scaling, and how to engage with your CXO. Startup CXO also has a section on the future of executive work, fractional and interim roles. Written by leading practitioners in the newly emergent fractional executive world, each function is covered with useful tips on how to be a successful fractional executive as well as what to look for and how to manage fractional executives. Startup CXO is an amazing resource for CEOs but also for functional leaders and professionals at any stage of their career. —Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner, High Alpha |
| carta cap table management: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), 1917 |
| carta cap table management: 創業投資聖經 布萊德．費爾德, 傑生．孟德森, 2021-09-29 正是這套夢幻法則，造就矽谷成為創業家與投資家的天堂樂園！ ＼Twitter 前CEO 迪克‧科斯特洛：「我創業的時候怎麼會沒有這本書呢？」／ ☆誠品、金石堂、博客來，各大書店暢銷榜完全制霸！ ☆《華爾街日報》暢銷榜、長踞亞馬遜網路書店創投類冠軍 ☆美國《企業家》雜誌年度必讀 增訂六個全新章節！ 詳解股權結構表、探討群眾募資需要注意什麼法律問題，股權該如何分配？建議何時該讓創投銀行介入、解析條件書的必要與重要性……豐富內容不藏私全公開！ 原始章節大幅修訂新增即時資訊！ 繁體中文版 獨家加注台灣「在地觀點」！ 作者布萊德．費爾德與傑生．孟德森 以近30年、數百次參與創業投資的經驗，傳授給讀者： 撰寫投資條件書的藝術 討論參與創業投資各個面向的參與者 如何融資並了解投資協議的具體條款 融資時的談判技巧、法律問題 以及所有創業者、投資人應該知道並熟記的所有知識與技巧…… 本書從創業投資條件最簡單的來龍去脈說起，先介紹參與創投交易的各方人馬。 接著談到如何籌錢，包括判斷「應該籌多少錢」，還有踏上籌資道路之前，需要哪些東西。這部分會講到許多創投人士決定投資時所遵照的程序。 再來是深入創投投資條件的細項，此處分成三章：「牟利的條件、控制權的條件、其餘條件」。我們在細項條件，力求觀點平衡，加上策略的輔佐，以圖公道地做生意。 後續會談到條件，有談「可轉換證券的方法」，再公開「創投商人的手法」，包含動機和報酬；接著會討論現實結構面如何影響一家公司籌資成敗，或在投資作成事後影響「創投人士、創投廠商、創業人士」三者的關係。 本書會初步講到談判，及特定策略在創投界是加分還是扣分，因為這在募資的過程中至關重要。我們也有意幫創業人士避免常見的錯誤或圈套，同時圓滿完成創投融資的交易。 世上沒有所謂標準的創投融資，各項議題會考量公司不同階段籌資納入考量。 本書特別用一章是講創業人士要知道的其他重要投資條件：向你收購公司的合同意向書。 最後以數個新創公司大多會面臨到的法律層面問題作結。本書也許沒辦法像論文那樣洋洋灑灑，羅列所有創業須知，不過已納入數個作者認為創業理當注意的重點。 ★新創的世界瞬息萬變，初版已是必讀聖經，二版新增逾八萬字內容，完整抓住趨勢脈動，趁勝追擊，擴大公司規模！★ 作者簡介 布萊德．費爾德 Brad Feld 柯羅拉多州圓石市（Boulder）的早期創投基金Foundry Group的共同創辦人暨常務董事，投資範圍涵蓋全美的資訊科技公司。 布萊德在共同創辦Foundry Group前，共同開設了Mobius創投，更早還有協助發起及營運軟體公司的Intensity創投。布萊德也是TechStars的發起人及《如虎添翼》（Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup）這本書的作者之一。 布萊德早期在AmeriData Technologies當技術長。AmeriData買下他1987年創立，專門做訂製軟體應用的廠商Feld Technologies。在被收購前，布萊德已經讓Feld Technologies成為波士頓的領導軟體顧問廠商；而在1995年被GE資本收購的市值15億美元上市公司AmeriData，他也主導了軟體顧問的多元化。 除了投資上的歷練，布萊德活躍於數家非營利組織，目前是國家女性暨資訊科技中心（National Center for Women and Information Technology）的主席。布萊德是全美知名的創投及創業領域講者，經營好評的人氣部落格www.feld.com和www.askthevc.com。 布萊德在麻省理工學院拿到理學學士及管理科學理學碩士，熱中收藏藝術品跟長跑，他跑完了攻克50州目標當中的22場馬拉松。 傑生．孟德森 Jason Mandelson 早期創投基金Foundry Group的共同創辦人暨常務董事。Foundry Group的投資涵蓋全美的資訊科技公司。密西根大學經濟學文學學士及法學博士（J.D.）， 傑生在共同創辦Foundry Group前，是Mobius創投的常務董事及法律總顧問，也擔任監督公司所有營運的首席行政合夥人。 還沒加入Mobius創投前，傑生在科律律師事務所（Cooley LLP）執業，執行公司跟證券法的業務，主要代理公開、私募與併購的新興公司。律師時期傑生完成逾20億美元的創投及50億美元的併購，對基金設立、雇佣法，與一般訴訟經驗豐富，在這類相關領域擔任專家證人。 進入法界前，傑生是埃森哲（Accenture）的資深顧問及軟體工程師。 作為是創投廠商最早的全職受雇法律總顧問，傑生向來是重要的意見領袖；他共同主持美國創投協會（National Venture Capital Association, NVCA）的法律總顧問小組，同時積極參與財務長小組，是起草NVCA示範文件的專案小組要角，曾擬定行業首見的標準化創投籌資文件，大大提升這方面生意的效率。他目前是NVCA董事會的成員。 傑生‧孟德森也是數個樂團演奏鼓和貝斯的樂手；他喜愛居家改裝、美食，和旅遊。平常也在部落格www.jasonmendelson.com和www.askthevc.com分享創投業的個人體驗。 譯者簡介 陳鴻旻 台灣大學經濟系畢業，元智大學財務金融學系碩士。現專事翻譯。 林麗雪 吳大猷科學普及著作獎譯作類金籤獎得主。台灣大學政治學系畢業。曾任職國會助理、記者與編輯。喜愛大自然與有生命力的人、事、物，熱愛文字工作。 |
| carta cap table management: Daily Coffee and Startup Fundraising Sarthak Ahuja, 2022-10-01 Starting up is never easy, and the lack of awareness of what’s needed to start up right makes the process even harder. Sarthak Ahuja operates from the unique vantage point of an Investment Banker helping startups raise capital, a Chartered Accountant helping them get their finances and compliances in order, and as a business advisor helping them kick off right. Working in proximity to both founders and investors, he understands intimately where founders struggle and how investors perceive new businesses. He brings both these perspectives masterfully in this book. Daily Coffee & Startup Fundraising identifies the hurdles Indian startups encounter early in their journeys, and offers solutions that would help them not only become attractive investment options but also lay the foundation for long-term success. |
| carta cap table management: Slicing Pie Mike Moyer, 2012 Slicing Pie outlines a simple process for making sure that the founders and early employees of a start-up company get their fair share of the equity. You will learn: How to value the time and resources an individual brings to the company relative to the contributions of others ; The right way to value intangible things like ideas and relationships ; What to do when a founder leaves your company ; How to handle equity when you have to fire someone. (4e de couv.). |
| carta cap table management: Accounting and Valuation Guide AICPA, 2019-09-16 Developed for preparers of financial statements, independent auditors, and valuation specialists, this guide provides nonauthoritative guidance and illustrations regarding the accounting for and valuation of portfolio company investments held by investment companies within the scope of FASB ASC 946, Financial Services —Investment Companies, (including private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, and business development companies). It features16 case studies that can be used to reason through real situations faced by investment fund managers, valuation specialists and auditors, this guide addresses many accounting and valuation issues that have emerged over time to assist investment companies in addressing the challenges in estimating fair value of these investments, such as: Unit of account Transaction costs Calibration The impact of control and marketability Backtesting |
| carta cap table management: 1215 Danny Danziger, John Gillingham, 2004 Danziger sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life at a time that saw the Crusades, Richard the Lionheart and the legendary Robin Hood all make their marks in history. At the center of this period is the document that has become the capstone of modern freedom: The Magna Carta. |
| carta cap table management: The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building Matt Mochary, 2019-12-05 Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley. With The Great CEO Within, he shares his highly effective leadership and business-operating tools with any CEO or manager in the world. Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback. Becoming a great CEO requires training. For a founding CEO, there is precious little time to complete that training, especially at the helm of a rapidly growing company. Now you have the guidance you need in one book. |
| carta cap table management: The Founder's Dilemmas Noam Wasserman, 2013-04 The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. |
| carta cap table management: Venture Deals Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, 2011-07-05 An engaging guide to excelling in today's venture capital arena Beginning in 2005, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, managing directors at Foundry Group, wrote a long series of blog posts describing all the parts of a typical venture capital Term Sheet: a document which outlines key financial and other terms of a proposed investment. Since this time, they've seen the series used as the basis for a number of college courses, and have been thanked by thousands of people who have used the information to gain a better understanding of the venture capital field. Drawn from the past work Feld and Mendelson have written about in their blog and augmented with newer material, Venture Capital Financings puts this discipline in perspective and lays out the strategies that allow entrepreneurs to excel in their start-up companies. Page by page, this book discusses all facets of the venture capital fundraising process. Along the way, Feld and Mendelson touch on everything from how valuations are set to what externalities venture capitalists face that factor into entrepreneurs' businesses. Includes a breakdown analysis of the mechanics of a Term Sheet and the tactics needed to negotiate Details the different stages of the venture capital process, from starting a venture and seeing it through to the later stages Explores the entire venture capital ecosystem including those who invest in venture capitalist Contain standard documents that are used in these transactions Written by two highly regarded experts in the world of venture capital The venture capital arena is a complex and competitive place, but with this book as your guide, you'll discover what it takes to make your way through it. |
| carta cap table management: The Business of Venture Capital Mahendra Ramsinghani, 2021-01-12 The new edition of the definitive guide for venture capital practitioners—covers the entire process of venture firm formation & management, fund-raising, portfolio construction, value creation, and exit strategies Since its initial publication, The Business of Venture Capital has been hailed as the definitive, most comprehensive book on the subject. Now in its third edition, this market-leading text explains the multiple facets of the business of venture capital, from raising venture funds, to structuring investments, to generating consistent returns, to evaluating exit strategies. Author and VC Mahendra Ramsinghani who has invested in startups and venture funds for over a decade, offers best practices from experts on the front lines of this business. This fully-updated edition includes fresh perspectives on the Softbank effect, career paths for young professionals, case studies and cultural disasters, investment models, epic failures, and more. Readers are guided through each stage of the VC process, supported by a companion website containing tools such as the LP-GP Fund Due Diligence Checklist, the Investment Due Diligence Checklist, an Investment Summary format, and links to white papers and other industry guidelines. Designed for experienced practitioners, angels, devils, and novices alike, this valuable resource: Identifies the key attributes of a VC professional and the arc of an investor’s career Covers the art of raising a venture fund, identifying anchor investors, fund due diligence, negotiating fund investment terms with limited partners, and more Examines the distinct aspects of portfolio construction and value creation Balances technical analyses and real-world insights Features interviews, personal stories, anecdotes, and wisdom from leading venture capitalists The Business of Venture Capital, Third Edition is a must-read book for anyone seeking to raise a venture fund or pursue a career in venture capital, as well as practicing venture capitalists, angel investors or devils alike, limited partners, attorneys, start-up entrepreneurs, and MBA students. |
| carta cap table management: The Magna Carta Manifesto Peter Linebaugh, 2009-06 History. |
| carta cap table management: Integrated Investing Bonnie Foley-Wong, 2016-10-15 Balancing financial skills with an ethical mindset and intuition is challenging in an increasingly complex world and market. Integrated Investing offers an insightful methodology and practice for making investment decisions that reap rewards while matching your values. Developed over more than two decades' experience in finance, investment banking and venture capital, Foley-Wong's tools will shift your perspective about the relationship between money and social good, while techniques will help you to evaluate investments in high-stakes situations. The result? You will learn to make savvy investments time and again that meet your goals while also benefiting your community and planet. Radical yet practical, provoking and empowering, Integrated Investing is a must read for anyone with the desire for a better world, and a dollar to create it. Bonnie Foley-Wong is the founder of Pique Ventures, an impact investment and management company, and Pique Fund, an angel fund focusing on leadership diversity and women-led ventures. She has made and financed over $1 billion of alternative investments in Europe and North America. Having grown up in a working-class family, education had the biggest impact on her life. She strongly believes in empowering people with knowledge to make better and more mindful investment decisions. Foley-Wong is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant, and a CFA charterholder. She presently resides in Vancouver, Canada, with her husband and young daughter. |
| carta cap table management: High Growth Handbook Elad Gil, 2018-07-17 High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups. |
| carta cap table management: Memos from the Chairman Alan C. Greenberg, 1996-01-01 The chairman of the board of Bear Stearns investment bank shares his innovative approach to business in a collection of witty, trenchant, and inspirational thoughts on success, bureaucracy, arrogance, telephone manners, and other topics. |
| carta cap table management: Rich Dad's Guide to Investing Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter, 2001-01-15 Rich Dad's Guide to Investing is a guide to understanding the real earning power of money by learning some of the investing secrets of the wealthy. |
| carta cap table management: The Startup Checklist David S. Rose, 2016-04-25 25 Steps to Found and Scale a High-Growth Business The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases, and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business. Instead of simply referring you to experts, this discussion shows you exactly which experts you need, what exactly you need them to do, and which tools you will use to support them—and you'll gain enough insight to ask smart questions that help you get your money's worth. If you're ready to do big things, this book has you covered from the first business card to the eventual exit. Over two thirds of startups are built on creaky foundations, and over two thirds of startup costs go directly toward cleaning up legal and practical problems caused by an incomplete or improper start. This book helps you sidestep the messy and expensive clean up process by giving you the specific actions you need to take right from the very beginning. Understand the critical intricacies of legally incorporating and running a startup Learn which experts you need, and what exactly you need from them Make more intelligent decisions independent of your advisors Avoid the challenges that threaten to derail great young companies The typical American startup costs over $30,000 and requires working with over two dozen professionals and service providers before it even opens for business—and the process is so complex that few founders do it correctly. Their startups errors often go unnoticed until the founder tries to seek outside capital, at which point they can cost thousands of dollars to fix. . . or even completely derail an investment. The Startup Checklist helps you avoid these problems and lay a strong foundation, so you can focus on building your business. |
| carta cap table management: Hiring for Attitude (PB) Mark Murphy, 2011-12-02 Build a high-performance workforce by abandoning skills-based hiring practices and focusing on employee attitude Hiring for Attitude offers a groundbreaking approach to recruiting, assessing, and selecting people with both tremendous skills but, more importantly, an attitude that aligns with the organization’s culture. Murphy cites his own company’s research and examines recent scientific studies about the practical effects a person’s attitude has on the outcome of his or her job performance. Clear and practical lessons are illuminated by numerous case studies of organizations like Microchip, Southwest Airlines, and The Ritz-Carlton. |
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| carta cap table management: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz, 2014-03-04 Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in. Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences. |
| carta cap table management: The Business of Venture Capital Mahendra Ramsinghani, 2014-07-14 The definitive guide to demystifying the venture capital business The Business of Venture Capital, Second Edition covers the entire spectrum of this field, from raising funds and structuring investments to assessing exit pathways. Written by a practitioner for practitioners, the book provides the necessary breadth and depth, simplifies the jargon, and balances the analytical logic with experiential wisdom. Starting with a Foreword by Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), this important guide includes insights and perspectives from leading experts. Covers the process of raising the venture fund, including identifying and assessing the Limited Partner universe; fund due-diligence criteria; and fund investment terms in Part One Discusses the investment process, including sourcing investment opportunities; conducting due diligence and negotiating investment terms; adding value as a board member; and exploring exit pathways in Part Two Offers insights, anecdotes, and wisdom from the experiences of best-in-class practitioners Includes interviews conducted by Leading Limited Partners/Fund-of-Funds with Credit Suisse, Top Tier Capital Partners, Grove Street Advisors, Rho Capital, Pension Fund Managers, and Family Office Managers Features the insights of over twenty-five leading venture capital practitioners, frequently featured on Forbes' Midas List of top venture capitalists Those aspiring to raise a fund, pursue a career in venture capital, or simply understand the art of investing can benefit from The Business of Venture Capital, Second Edition. The companion website offers various tools such as GP Fund Due Diligence Checklist, Investment Due Diligence Checklist, and more, as well as external links to industry white papers and other industry guidelines. |
| carta cap table management: Value Investing Bruce C. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, Michael van Biema, 2004-01-26 From the guru to Wall Street's gurus comes the fundamental techniques of value investing and their applications Bruce Greenwald is one of the leading authorities on value investing. Some of the savviest people on Wall Street have taken his Columbia Business School executive education course on the subject. Now this dynamic and popular teacher, with some colleagues, reveals the fundamental principles of value investing, the one investment technique that has proven itself consistently over time. After covering general techniques of value investing, the book proceeds to illustrate their applications through profiles of Warren Buffett, Michael Price, Mario Gabellio, and other successful value investors. A number of case studies highlight the techniques in practice. Bruce C. N. Greenwald (New York, NY) is the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia University. Judd Kahn, PhD (New York, NY), is a member of Morningside Value Investors. Paul D. Sonkin (New York, NY) is the investment manager of the Hummingbird Value Fund. Michael van Biema (New York, NY) is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. |
| carta cap table management: From Startup to Exit Shirish Nadkarni, 2021-08-24 Tech entrepreneurs, make your startup dreams come true by utilizing this invaluable, founder-to-founder guide to successfully navigating all phases of the tech startup journey. With the advent of the internet, mobile computing, and now AI/Machine learning and cloud computing, the number of new startups has accelerated over the last decade across tech centers in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, and China. From Startup to Exit shares the knowledge that pioneering, serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni has gained from over two decades of success, detailing the practical aspects of startup formation from founding, funding, management, and finding an exit. With successful tech entrepreneurs interviewed and featured throughout, From Startup to Exit will help you: Understand exactly what tech startups must do to succeed in all phases, from idea stage to IPO. Gain invaluable insights from the journeys of other successful tech founders that can be applied to your own situation. Learn how to raise millions of dollars of funding from angels and VCs to give your company the fuel it needs to take off and succeed. |
| carta cap table management: The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation Shane P. Mahoney, Valerius Geist, 2019-09-10 The foremost experts on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation come together to discuss its role in the rescue, recovery, and future of our wildlife resources. At the end of the nineteenth century, North America suffered a catastrophic loss of wildlife driven by unbridled resource extraction, market hunting, and unrelenting subsistence killing. This crisis led powerful political forces in the United States and Canada to collaborate in the hopes of reversing the process, not merely halting the extinctions but returning wildlife to abundance. While there was great understanding of how to manage wildlife in Europe, where wildlife management was an old, mature profession, Continental methods depended on social values often unacceptable to North Americans. Even Canada, a loyal colony of England, abandoned wildlife management as practiced in the mother country and joined forces with like-minded Americans to develop a revolutionary system of wildlife conservation. In time, and surviving the close scrutiny and hard ongoing debate of open, democratic societies, this series of conservation practices became known as the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. In this book, editors Shane P. Mahoney and Valerius Geist, both leading authorities on the North American Model, bring together their expert colleagues to provide a comprehensive overview of the origins, achievements, and shortcomings of this highly successful conservation approach. This volume • reviews the emergence of conservation in late nineteenth–early twentieth century North America • provides detailed explorations of the Model's institutions, principles, laws, and policies • places the Model within ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts • describes the many economic, social, and cultural benefits of wildlife restoration and management • addresses the Model's challenges and limitations while pointing to emerging opportunities for increasing inclusivity and optimizing implementation Studying the North American experience offers insight into how institutionalizing policies and laws while incentivizing citizen engagement can result in a resilient framework for conservation. Written for wildlife professionals, researchers, and students, this book explores the factors that helped fashion an enduring conservation system, one that has not only rescued, recovered, and sustainably utilized wildlife for over a century, but that has also advanced a significant economic driver and a greater scientific understanding of wildlife ecology. Contributors: Leonard A. Brennan, Rosie Cooney, James L. Cummins, Kathryn Frens, Valerius Geist, James R. Heffelfinger, David G. Hewitt, Paul R. Krausman, Shane P. Mahoney, John F. Organ, James Peek, William Porter, John Sandlos, James A. Schaefer |
| carta cap table management: Financial Management and Policy James C. Van Horne, 1974 Management textbook on financial policy, financing and investment - includes theoretical and methodologycal implications. Graphs, references and statistical tables. |
| carta cap table management: What You Do Is Who You Are Ben Horowitz, 2019-10-29 Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them—yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want? To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake. What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building—the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, a man convicted of murder who ran the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture. Horowitz connects these leadership examples to modern case-studies, including how Louverture’s cultural techniques were applied (or should have been) by Reed Hastings at Netflix, Travis Kalanick at Uber, and Hillary Clinton, and how Genghis Khan’s vision of cultural inclusiveness has parallels in the work of Don Thompson, the first African-American CEO of McDonalds, and of Maggie Wilderotter, the CEO who led Frontier Communications. Horowitz then offers guidance to help any company understand its own strategy and build a successful culture. What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Are we there for people in a pinch? Can we be trusted? Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book aims to help you do the things you need to become the kind of leader you want to be—and others want to follow. |
| carta cap table management: The Soul of a Deal Richard Wolpert, 2018-03-12 Learn the skills to close your most important business deals. In this book Richard Wolpert shares the details of the deals he has completed with industry titans including Steve Jobs. Bill Gates, and many others. Richard also shares how he has been able to achieve such great success in deal making in his more than 30 year career that started out on the original software team for Macintosh at Apple. In addition, get the wisdom and insight of 22 other very successful business leaders and their secrets for closing deals including J.J.Abrams, Deepak Chopra, Peter Guber, Reid Hoffman, Penn Jillette and many others from fields as diverse as doing business with technology companies, in entertainment, with Africa, to deal making in war torn Iraq and Afghanistan. Whether you are in business school, have a job in business development, or just want insight into how deals really get done, this book is a must! |
| carta cap table management: A Concise History of the Common Law Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, 2001 Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956. |
| carta cap table management: Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes, 3rd edition Rebecca White, Vicky Bradnam, 2015-03-11 With over 400 drug monographs, this book covers the technical, practical and legal aspects that you should consider before prescribing or administering drugs via enteral feeding tubes. |
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| carta cap table management: On Startups: Advice and Insights for Entrepreneurs Dharmesh Shah, 2012-12-09 Note from the Author Hi, my name is Dharmesh, and I’m a startup addict. And, chances are, if you’re reading this, you have at least a mild obsession as well. This book is based on content from the OnStartups.com blog. The story behind how the blog got started is sort of interesting—but before I tell you that story, it’ll help to understand my earlier story. As a professional programmer, I used to work in a reasonably fun job doing what I liked to do (write code). Eventually, I got a little frustrated with it all, so at the ripe old age of 24, I started my first software company. It did pretty well. It was on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies three times. It reached millions of dollars of sales and was ultimately acquired. I ran that first company for over 10 years working the typical startup hours. When I sold that company, I went back to school to get a master’s degree at MIT. I’ve always enjoyed academics, and I figured this would be a nice “soft landing” and give me some time to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. As part of my degree requirements, I had to write a graduate thesis. I titled my thesis “On Startups: Patterns and Practices of Contemporary Software Entrepreneurs.” And, as part of that thesis work, I wanted to get some feedback from some entrepreneurs. So, I figured I’d start a blog. I took the first two words of the thesis title, “On Startups,” discovered that the domain name OnStartups.com was available, and was then off to the races. The blog was launched on November 5, 2005. Since then, the blog and associated community have grown quite large. Across Facebook, LinkedIn, and email subscribers, there are over 300,000 people in the OnStartups.com audience. This book is a collection of some of the best articles from over 7 years of OnStartups.com. The articles have been topically organized and edited. I hope you enjoy them. |
| carta cap table management: The Conquests of Mexico and Peru William Prescott, 2005-10-01 It is a magnificent epic, Prescott declared of his own work, the splendid History of the Conquest of Mexico, after its publication in 1843, and indeed, it is still hailed today as his masterpiece. Reverberating with hints of Greek tragedy and classical drama, this is a sweeping and enthralling account of Spanish conquistador Hernando Cort s's crushing of Montezuma and his Aztec empire. Perhaps the most important work of Latin American history, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration, raves Prescott biographer Harry Thurston Peck. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Also available from Cosimo Classics: History of the Conquest of Peru, Prescott's companion volume about Pizarro's subjugation of the Incans. Historian, writer, and scholar WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT (1796-1859) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. A regular contributor to the prestigious Boston literary journal North American Review, he also authored numerous books of history, including 1837's The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, a critical and popular success in both America and Europe. |
| carta cap table management: The World Book Encyclopedia , 2002 An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students. |
| carta cap table management: History of the Conquest of Mexico William Hickling Prescott, 1896 |
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