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Founders’ guide to equity, valuations, and company growth.

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Why small business owners should issue shares?

Have you just incorporated your business or are you about to start a new one soon? Well, having a business brings in a lot of responsibilities and activities that run with the help of capital. Without capital, your business would not be able to operate and become successful. And if you are a person who …

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Stock Options or Restricted Stock Units (RSU)

Did you know that the first employee equity incentive plan originated in 1851 and was created by a company named Illinois Central Railroad Company? Well, thanks to this company, many companies today are able to offer a part of their employees with equity incentives and employ the best talents. These companies basically implement the equity …

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What is a Cap Table? How to Make a Cap Table for your company?

Now that you have registered your company and have everything in place in terms of the important documents, what is the next thing to do? Well, your work as a founder doesn’t just end at registering a business and running it. As you increase the members of your company, you would need a place to …

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