Best Practices for Founder Equity and Cap Tables

Many entrepreneurs leave stable jobs with steady pay to pursue their vision of building a vibrant venture. Founders may work for little to no salary in hopes that the future payout of a successful startup will more than make up for years of risk, uncertainty, and sacrifices.

Sadly, it’s common for early stock decisions to metastasize into cancerous terms or unfair equity splits, creating founder conflicts that threaten to tear the company apart. Or rookie mistakes with cap table management result in excess dilution for all the founders and employees, dramatically reducing the equity payday for your hardest working contributors. After working with dozens of startups, we’ve seen hundreds of avoidable mistakes.

Join us for a lively class covering what often goes wrong with founder equity and how to get it right. We'll also do a live demonstration of our cap table tracking tool, part of our new Startup Due Diligence: Best Practices & Toolkit class.

Fundable Startups provides coaching, training, and tools that helps founders build healthy, fundable companies. As a published author and a CEO, CTO or Tech VP of 5 startups with 3 exits, Sam Wong leads Fundable Startups in creating premium, deep-dive, visual training and tools to help founders with great execution.

Sam is also a member of Band of Angels, the first high-tech angel investment group in the USA. Since its inception in 1994, the Band has funded 400+ companies with 97 profitable M&A exits and 17 IPOs.