Expanding on these key skills every startup founder should know, this Founder’s Pocket Guide helps you learn how to:
• Build your basic cap table step by step, including founder’s shares, option pools, angel investor rounds, and VC rounds.
• Decipher cap table specific lingo, such as fully-diluted shares outstanding, preferred shares vs. common shares, Series A, Series B, and so on.
• Establish a stock option pool in your cap table and understand the option pool effect on founder dilution.
• Understand the simple math behind cap table formulas and calculations, including calculating fully diluted shares outstanding, investor equity ownership percentages, and share price.