Monthly Archives for February 2010

Start up Equity Simulator

Programme to help you understand your Equity Fingerprint.  Recently met someone who went through a down round, someone who has been aware of Equity Fingerprint since inception.

But until you work hard for months and months and then find that all your work has resulted in a down-round, you never do understand Equity Fingerprint.

Dismissed as my idea of starting a company rather than understanding that it is the way it is done in clusters.

But, of course, it is always someone else’s fault.

Great being an entrepreneur whilst holding down a full-time public sector job and asking your co-founders to take the strain.

Comment from the website:

The equity structures VCs use to fund startups make it complicated to determine the value of common stock if the startup were to be acquired. This simple python program makes it relatively easy to simulate various types of funding going into a company followed by an acquisition in order to come up with a price for what founders might get paid for their common stock.

Lots of code at;

https://code.google.com/p/startupequitysimulator/source/browse/trunk/payout.py

Hope that Python is second nature to you…..

Hat tip: www.avc.com