Private capital fundraising had a bombshell year in 2019. An incredible $888 billion was raised across 1,064 venture capital, private equity and other funds accounting for the most private capital ever raised on an annual basis, according to a new…
Many EquityEffect clients have seen immense changes to their operations and strategic visions due to the COVID-19 global crisis. Small businesses, in particular, have experienced profound impacts of supply, demand, distribution, personnel, regulatory, and macroeconomic disruptions over the past month.…
The Kauffman Foundation is a non-profit institution devoted to education in entrepreneurship. In 2012, the foundation published a white paper “We Have Met the Enemy...and He is Us”. Upon analyzing two decades of investment performance across 96 VC funds, the…
It’s ironic: for an industry that regularly invests in the bleeding edge of modern technology, venture capital firms find themselves lacking the tools necessary to analyze their own portfolios. Portfolio analytics—the accurate collection and streamlined interpretation of metrics at the…
Thinking big is easy. Preparing for “big”? Not so much. The best VCs are always planning for the future, considering every angle. So how do good VCs manage to weigh every option and prepare for any eventuality? It’s simple: scenario…
Every new venture starts with a dream. If you are a budding entrepreneur whose dream it is to start an innovative company, the road to making that dream a reality is loaded with twists and turns. Like signposts on a…
Want to learn how to avoid 409A penalties? Good, you're in the right place! Nothing jeopardizes the stability of your growing company like having the IRS down your throat. But if your company doesn’t comply with Section 409A of the…
A capitalization table (“cap table” for short) is a precise record of who owns a piece of a corporation and how big each piece is. In other words, it discloses the total market value of a company and how its…
You’ve just recruited the first executive for your startup: a hotshot CIO. Naturally, you couldn’t offer her a big salary, but she’ll be the first recruit to receive company stock options. You had been thinking about using stock options and…
In our new series, Research Recap, we’re giving you the need-to-knows from the mountain of dense scholarly articles and industry research surrounding venture capital. The kind of stuff no one wants to read, even if they have the time. Today,…
