Stanford GSB Professor on Startups & Investors
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How Founders Lose Control to Dilution (And Don’t See It Coming)
Here’s a number that surprises even my Stanford MBA students: by Series B, the average founding team owns ~40% of their company. By IPO, it’s often below 20%.
And that’s for successful companies.
Stanford GSB Professor on Startups & Inves...
Venture Capital 101 Class. What to expect?
I have been fortunate to have developed and taught the Venture Capital class to more than 1,500 Stanford MBA students since 2013. Many of my students became founders of angel- and VC-backed companies, angel, VC, and PE investors, and capita...
The Future of Venture Capital: Unlocking Liquidity and Growth
The World Economic Forum’s Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems has just released The Future of Venture Capital: Unlocking Liquidity and Growth, developed in collaboration with the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative. I had the pri...
Venture Capital 101: Series A Cheat Sheet — Who Wins When Every Term Goes Up
Welcome back. Over the last weeks we have taken apart convertible preferred stock clause by clause — liquidation preference, optional conversion, the cap table mechanics, participation, and dividends.
Published articles:
- Venture Cap...
Diligence yourself before investors do. The 70+ questions smart VCs will ask you — and how to spot your own red flags first
A founder's complete checklist of investor due diligence — from founder fit to fund timelines.
Startup founders consistently stumble on two fronts in fundraising. They fail to ask what due diligence they should do on investors — and they f...
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