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Vesting Schedule 101 Guide

Success of any business is determined by the team behind it. Be it the founders, employees or the business’s resources, a company succeeds only when all these forces come together to contribute the best of their skills and hard work. Needless to say, such dedicated efforts have to be adequately compensated by the company. An … Continued

Sweat Equity Agreement: All you need to know

A Startup is typically formed by two or more founders who come together to build on an ingenious idea. Each one specializes in a particular field and together they are a team of dynamic individuals with a shared dream. Some Founders may contribute in financial terms while others contribute intellectual property. But how do you … Continued

New and Improved Features for Document Management on Eqvista

If you are already on Eqvista, you may know how easy the app is to manage and track all of your company shares. We are constantly updating our platform to bring you the best experience for managing your company. That is why we have released some new features for better document management. To give you … Continued

Interview with Nathan Krishnan, 409a Valuation Expert, Eqvista

Today we’ve Nathan Krishnan, who recently joined the Eqvista team as a valuation analyst specialized in 409a valuations and early-stage valuations. We got a chance to have a quick chat with him to talk about his experience in the field of business valuations and many more. First of all, Welcome to Eqvista team, Nathan 🙂 … Continued

Exercising Employee Stock Options (ESO): Guide

For many startups, employee incentive packages have become somewhat of a sensitive topic, as companies struggle to find out the right package for their employees. When it comes to attracting highly-skilled employees and retaining your existing staff, stock options often come up. However, exercising stock options can prove to be a confusing task for new … Continued

Employee Equity Management in Startups: Best Practices

Let us assume that you have the initial cash you need to set everything up for your business, but the trouble comes later when you look into the cash flow in the future. You are hurting for cash flow, which is the money coming in every month. Because of this, it can be really hard … Continued

How to Use Cap Table Management Software?

Unable to get out due to coronavirus? Social distancing means putting our normal day-to-day routine on hold for now, so why not take this time to learn how to make the most out of your shareholder management software?  Apart from this, several platforms provide services that provide the best accounting and take care of the … Continued

Update: Add or Change your Company’s Currency on Eqvista

Are you using Eqvista as your cap table software to track and manage the shares in your company? If not, it is time to do so! Eqvista is constantly growing and updating our app to make things much easier for users as they issue shares in their company. Our most recent update is that users … Continued

Cap Table Management: 10 Rules Entrepreneurs Must Know

When a person becomes a founder, they know all about the many different aspects of a company, such as important business documents and how to manage a company to become successful. And one of the most important documents that an entrepreneur needs to know about is a capitalization table and what proper cap table management … Continued

KISS or Keep It Simple Security Convertible Note Calculator

Have your company up and running but still need some capital to support and grow it? Don’t want to offer equity for the funding you raise? In this case, you can make use of convertible security instruments such as a KISS convertible note, otherwise known as a Keep It Simple Security. Not sure what a … Continued

Add Shareholders and Issue Shares in a Hong Kong Company

An essential aspect of the overall development and growth of a company is its shareholders. A company needs the support of the shareholders to provide funds to grow the business. Shareholders are also significant stakeholders because they contribute capital to the organization for the ownership of the company, be it from individual shareholders or from … Continued

SAFE or Simple Agreement for Future Equity Template

When starting a new company, there comes a lot of excitement to get your business ideas off the ground and start running your company. But this will eventually bring in the realization that you will need to raise money to run the company and grow. And at this point, many founders struggle to find a … Continued

Difference between RSUs and Options 101

Thinking of a way to incentivize your employees? Thinking outside the box to motivate your staff to work harder for the company can be difficult. Along with the standard salary, you can try offering your employees with some additional compensation in the form of equity. However unless you’ve taken a crash course in options 101, … Continued

Introducing Eqvista New Vesting System : Update

Planning to offer a better form of compensation to the employees in your company? With the competitive nature of the job market these days, many firms are looking for new ways to attract and retain their employees. And one of the best ways for compensating employees is through share options with a vesting schedule. With … Continued

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

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