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Eqvista in 2019: Looking back at the past year

A year changes a lot in everyone’s life. In reality, it is not the year, but the changes that make us grow. Similarly, as the year ends there has been a lot of developments made in Eqvista over the year which leads to the overall growth of the company. Eqvista is a modern equity management … Continued

Eqvista Wishes You Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

From all of us at Eqvista, here we wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you for the wonderful year 2019! We would like to thank all our customers and partners for your continuous support throughout this year. As the holiday season is here, we would like to take this opportunity to express our … Continued

FAST Agreement or Founder Advisor Standard Template: Everything you need to know

Being one of the world’s largest entrepreneur startup and training launch programs, the Founder Institute has worked towards providing innovative solutions for entrepreneurs over the years. And one of the greatest problems that many startups face is having a well outlined agreement for advisors working for a new company. No one was able to get … Continued

Financial Scenario Modeling For Startups

Not sure which financing or exit scenario is the best for your business? This question comes to mind for many private companies looking for financing options for their future growth. Now that companies have more liquidity and financing options at their disposal, this creates the need for more sophisticated financial scenario modeling. Even though companies … Continued

Stock Dilution: Everything You Need to Know

One of the most important things that any startup executive will come across when discussing about the company shares is stock dilution. Stock dilution in a company decreases the equity ownership of the existing shareholders when new shares are issued, be it to investors, employees, advisors, and others. There are also other ways equity dilution … Continued

Introducing Eqvista New Feature: Secondary Transaction List

Eqvista has been making great strides in updating and growing our application for our users. We have been making key changes to put our cap table management application at the top of the market, and expand the functionality of the system. The best part of our system is its user-friendly approach and wide functionality for … Continued

Introducing Waterfall Analysis and Round Modeling Features to our Platform

With your company already in place, what are the next steps for your business? Other than hiring employees and growing your company, you also need to keep track of the ownership of your company. This is especially true if you have multiple partners and outside investments. You can start by focusing your attention on upgrading … Continued

Share Vesting: All You Need to Know

Are you planning to issue shares to your employees? If so, do you know all about the possible vesting plans you can offer your employees with? Well, share vesting is a very important part of issuing shares to your staff, and helps with controlling the ownership of the company. Read on to learn more about … Continued

Creating Cap Table for Your Startup: Step by Step Guide

If you have recently launched a new startup, your mind might be a battlefield by now. You must be struggling with the harsh facts that only the best startups can survive in the competitive business world. In essence, you are bound to pay close attention to each & every aspect related to the growth of … Continued

One of the First Amazon Equity Offers For Employees

In the growing period of the company, every small business owner has to face one of the most colossal-size challenges in the business world, hiring top-talent. Lower capital and experience in the founder make it difficult for hiring in the initial years. There is no denying the fact that appropriate fiscal management is the key … Continued

UBER Financial Planning Before IPO: All You Need to Know

2019 has come up as one of the biggest years for tech IPOs. Several tech companies have gone public with billion-dollar valuations. Therefore, it is also being called the year of unicorns and have become one of the trending topic discussions.  As a matter of fact, UBER is a company that has come under the … Continued

Business Valuation Methods: All You Need to Know

Business valuation has always been a point of convergence in the world of corporate finance. There are various critical questions that corporate finance always tries to figure out like, how & where should a business invest its resources? What would be the best figure a business may return to its owners? How to raise funds … Continued

Splitting Equity Among Co-Founders in a Startup: Best Practice

Money has always been the main reason why businesses come into being. Money has been a complicated issue that has laid the foundation to millions of conflicts, taken place all over the globe. In business, these conflicts often happen between co-founders of a company. That is when equity is split between the co-founders and is … Continued

Basic Concepts of Employee Stock Options

In the late 1990s, when the internet was blossoming, stock options were the major drawing card. Since that time, this card is bringing influential talent to many new up-and-coming companies. Stock options benefit both employers and employees. It is one of the best ways to offer a part of the future growth or a percentage … Continued

4 Most Common Cap Table Management Problems: How to Fix Them

Let’s say if your startup is a Netflix series, then your capitalization table would be the rolling credits. It would outline everyone that makes up the ownership and the roles they have in the company. For every company founder, it is important that you have a detailed understanding of all that you own in the … Continued

Incentive Stock Options or ISO: All You Need To Know

If you have been looking for a way to reward your employees for their hard work, you can think of offering them something more than just a salary and medical benefits. Equity compensation especially incentive stock option or ISO is one of the common ways of employee compensation method. Equity compensation offer to their employees … Continued

Complete Guide on Finding a Right Investor For Your Startup

With technology-based companies become a popular part of the business world, hotbeds like New York, California and others are now not the only ones who have technology-based companies. Tech companies are everywhere and it is becoming easier for new companies to get startup funding. As per the CB Insights, some of the top funding companies … Continued

Convertible Notes: Things You Need to Understand

Being an entrepreneur might seem like an easy way to achieve success. But often it’s a rocky road you must navigate and steer your business in the right direction. There are many things that you will come across that require difficult decisions and cause stress. If you have a new startup on your hands and … Continued

How Can Eqvista Help Manage Shares?

Launching a company brings with it a lot of responsibilities for an entrepreneur. One of the greatest troubles is to manage the shares in the company. A share in the company represents the ownership of the company, and being an owner means you need to issue and manage shares properly to keep the best interest … Continued

Challenges For Small Business Owners While Issuing Shares

Starting a business can sometimes overwhelm a new entrepreneur, especially the legal details of incorporating a business and running it. And when an entrepreneur incorporates, the very first challenge that they may face is how to issue shares for their small business, how many shares to issue and what to do to avoid diluting their … Continued

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