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📈Startup financing and cap tables
The math and mechanics of venture-backed equity financing — ownership and dilution, priced rounds and anti-dilution, SAFEs and convertible notes, term-sheet structure, employee equity vehicles across jurisdictions, and the exit waterfalls that determine the per-share outcome. Six lessons of mechanics that apply across every cycle.
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- 1BusinessCap tables and dilution: the arithmetic of ownershipStart
- 2BusinessPriced rounds: pre-money, post-money, and the share mathStart
- 3BusinessSAFEs and convertible notes: deferred-pricing instrumentsStart
- 4BusinessTerm-sheet anatomy: preferences, board, and controlStart
- 5BusinessOption pools and employee equity: ISOs, NSOs, RSUs, BSPCE, EMIStart
- 6BusinessExit waterfalls: who gets paid what at a saleStart
