How are Startup Employee Strike Prices Set?
It’s a common question: Does the startup board have any flexibility when it comes to setting the strike price for options?
What are Your VC’s Return Expectations Depending on the Stage of Investment?
It is incredibly important that startup founders know what their VCs are going for so that they can be aligned and make smart decisions.
What is a Secondary Stock Transaction?
Kruze Consulting COO, Scott Orn, explains everything you need to know about secondary stock transactions and why VC firms are buying founder shares.
What’s the difference between primary and secondary shares at a startup?
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, identifies the key differences between a startup’s primary and secondary shares and what happens when they are sold.
How do venture capital firms make money?
A guide to the business model of a venture capital firm and how they make money. Important insight into how venture capitals firms make money.
Is angel investing tax deductible?
While sometimes it may feel like you’re giving money to charity as an angel investor, that’s not how it works for tax purposes.
How Startup Founders Should Discuss Their Compensation with VCs
Here at Kruze Consulting, we are advisors to hundreds of VC-backed startups that have raised billions in venture funding.
How VCs get their capital: Family offices
If you are a founder talking to a VC investing their first fund, or a VC with a fund that is $50 million in size or smaller, it’s highly likely that the VC is getting the majority of their fund’s commitments from family offices.
How to Handle a Co-Founder Departure
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, gives advice on how to handle a co-founder leaving the company and finding the positives alongside the negatives.
How Quickly Should Founders Respond to VCs?
We like to think of the venture capitalist as the most important customer of a startup, certainly in your startup’s early phase.
Why Would a Founder or CEO of a VC backed startup get fired?
It's really important to state upfront that no venture capitalist or board member ever wants to fire the founder from a startup.
Structured Term Sheets in Late-Stage Venture Capital
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, present an everything you need to know guide to structured term sheets in late-stage venture capital.
This is how you should choose VCs in a tough market
Over the last year, it’s been a ferocious capital market for startups, with great valuations and good access to capital.
How to Raise Venture Capital from Existing Investors Right Now
It’s been a tough stock market and venture market recently for startup tech companies. Since the market has corrected, capital is becoming precious again.
What is the 2% and 20% VC fee structure?
Everything you need to know about the 2% and 20% venture capital standard fee structure. Here is a basic breakdown and alternative structures.
Why do VC General Partners invest in other Venture Capital Funds
Before we jump into why venture capital general partners would invest in other VC funds, let’s break down some basic terminology.
Venture debt: Don’t borrow your own money
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, talks about the risks of Venture Debt and how to make sure you don't end up borrowing your own money!
The value of having a branded VC lead your startup’s round
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, discusses the value of having a branded Venture Capital firm lead your startup’s round and its several benefits.
How often should an early-stage startup have board meetings?
This is an important question when it comes to Series A and Series B startups.
What is the Right of First Refusal When it Comes to Startup Equity?
Everything you need to know about the Right of First Refusal when it comes to startup equity. Learn about RoFR in stock purchase agreements in VC fundraising.
What is the Bessemer Cloud Index?
The Bessemer Cloud Index was created in 2013 by Bessemer Venture Partners, this is a guide to what the Bessemer Cloud Index tracks and how it works.
What is the IPO window?
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, provides a guide to the IPO window, how market conditions affect the IPO and if your startup is ready for one.
What is the IPO window?
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, provides a guide to the IPO window, how market conditions affect the IPO and if your startup is ready for one.
How do I Get in Touch with Angel or Seed Funds?
Ever wonder “how do I get in touch with Angel or Seed Funds? Read to learn how to know exactly what to include in a cold email.
For a seed round, are many investors or a small group better?
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, answers the question 'For a seed round, are many investors or a small group better?' when considering startup funding.
For a seed round, are many investors or a small group better?
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, answers the question 'For a seed round, are many investors or a small group better?' when considering startup funding.
Quick Guide to Matching Assets to Debt
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, gives a quick guide to matching your startup's assets to the right kind of debt including revolvers and term debt.
Financing a Startup
Financing a Startup - 8 most common sources of startup financing.
Financing a Startup
Financing a Startup - 8 most common sources of startup financing.
Does Crowdfunding Capital Raise Discourage Future VC Investment?
Does raising capital by crowdfunding discourage future venture capital investments? A guide to different ways to raise capital at startup.
Why Do Big Acquirers like to buy Small Startups via an Asset Sale vs. an Equity Purchase?
Why do big companies like to buy smaller startups in an asset sale versus an equity purchase? The answer is pretty simple.
Where Do VCs Get Their Money?
Where do VCs get their money from? Everyone knows that entrepreneurs who are doing a startup have to go to pitch venture capitalists.
How Do Venture Capitalists Spend Their Time?
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, answers the question 'how do venture capitalists spend their time?' giving an insight into venture capitalist's day-to-day.
What is the Value-Add of Angel Investors
As a startup looking for funding, you should know the answer to “what is the value-add of angel investors?” Read to learn more.
What Securities do VCs use to Invest in Startups?
In the United States, there are four types of securities that are typically used by venture capitalists to invest in Silicon Valley-style startups.
Fund Venture Lenders vs. Bank Venture Lenders
Today we're talking about fund venture lenders vs. bank venture lenders. Now, banks, they're always really really cheap. They have low interest rates and low warrant coverage and that's partially because they are lending out other companies’ deposits. They take one company's deposits and lend it out to another. That's how banks work in just about everything. So that way their cost of funding is very very low.
Startup's Due Diligence Information Venture Lenders Ask For
The first thing they're going to ask for is your historical financials.
Investor Abandonment Clause on Venture Debt
We're mainly referring to investor abandonment and venture debt term sheets.
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