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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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  1. 1
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    Cap tables and dilution: the arithmetic of ownership
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  2. 2
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    Priced rounds: pre-money, post-money, and the share math
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  3. 3
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    SAFEs and convertible notes: deferred-pricing instruments
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  4. 4
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    Term-sheet anatomy: preferences, board, and control
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  5. 5
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    Option pools and employee equity: ISOs, NSOs, RSUs, BSPCE, EMI
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  6. 6
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    Exit waterfalls: who gets paid what at a sale
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