Expert Lunch: Understanding the Dilution Impact of Early Stage Investment (28 Jun 2013)

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:00:00 GMT

In today’s difficult investment climate, entrepreneurs should have the maximum understanding of the impact of proposed financing – before they talk to investors.

This session will not only explain terms such as:

pre-money
fully diluted equity
option pool
percentage ownership
weighted average anti-dilution
full ratchet anti-dilution
per share price

but will show you the exact numerical consequences of these difficult negotiating points.

Also in this workshop lunch, you will learn how to build your own capitalization table in a simple, but powerful spreadsheet. BYOL - Bring your own laptop

Once you have your basic cap table built, we will discuss in detail, how to use this tool to understand the dilutive impact of various investment decisions such as:

stock options
restricted stock
early stage angel or venture capital investment
down-rounds
anti-dilution provisions
and more...

Working lunch programs are hosted by TCN's experts to provide tactical level information designed to accelerate the fundraising process.

Expert:

Jeremy Halpern, Partner Nutter McClennen & Fish

Working lunch programs are hosted by TCN's experts to provide tactical level information designed to accelerate the fundraising process.

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*TCN has a Season Pass Program that allows people to purchase a pass to TCN’s Roundtable and Special Event programming as well as a deeply discounted registration to all Expert Lunches.

Please note that TCN events are open to entrepreneurs and investors only, or approved guests of TCN. Service providers of any type must join TCN as a Sponsor. For more information, please contact Sam Hammar (sam@thecapitalnetowork.org) for details.

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Expert Lunch: Understanding the Dilution Impact of Early Stage Investment (28 Jun 2013)