Good read from Techcrunch on raising seed capital. Editor’s note: This post is written by guest author Darius “Bubs” Monsef, who is founder & CEO of the new design marketplace CreativeMarket. He is also the founder of the popular creative community COLOURlovers and is a mentor with 500Startups & PIEPDX. Bubs blogs at HelloBubs. I’d started raising 3...

Great post from Serial Entrepreneur and VC, Mark Suster discussing valuations of startups. Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely...

A quick video from Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow of the Kauffman Foundation discussing where majority of entrepreneurs get their capital from. Hint: It isn’t venture capitalist.

Here is a link to a Cap Table Template that Fred Wilson created himself. Cap Table Template The 4 basic outlines of this cap table that he mentioned are: 1) it shows all the major stockholders of the company listed down the left side. it also shows the major option holders and buckets of option holders 2) it shows all of the classes of stock and how much was paid...

An entertaining way to learn about option...