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Founder’s Pocket Guide Companion Files
Valuation Explorer
[Founder’s Pocket Guide: Startup Valuation]
This companion file to the Founder’s Pocket Guide: Startup Valuation provides readers the ability to follow along with key examples reviewed in this guide. With a live version of the Excel file you’ll be able to test various valuation “what-if’s” and document your work of determining a reasonable pre-money valuation for your startup.
Startup-Valuation-Explorer.xlsx (14979 downloads )
Stock Options Companion File
[Founder’s Pocket Guide: Stock Options]
With this companion file to the Founder’s Pocket Guide: Stock Options and Equity Compensation you’ll be able to follow along with the examples presented in the guide, exploring various equity compensation structures and exit event equity payout scenarios.
FPG-Stock-Options-Companion-File.xlsx (8374 downloads )Cap Table Example
[Founder’s Pocket Guide: Cap Tables]
This companion file to the Founder’s Pocket Guide: Cap Tables enables readers to follow along with each section of this guide. With a live version of the excel file you’ll be able to review the overall layout of the cap table, examine each of the formulas that calculate outcomes such as shareholder percentages, and conduct what-if scenarios that show how investments and founder dilution percentages play out.
Founders-Pocket-Guide-Cap-Table-Mar-2019.xlsx (15359 downloads )
Equity Splits Workbook
[Founder’s Pocket Guide: Founder Equity Splits]
With this companion file to the Founder’s Pocket Guide: Founder Equity Splits you’ll be able to test the equity split frameworks and save the outcomes to review with your co-founders. The free file includes the following components: 1) The Founder Test and 2) The Equity Split Scorecard.
Equity-Split-Workbook.xlsx (9291 downloads )Additional Resources
The Ultimate Angel Funding Checklist
Use this infographic as the foundation for your startup fundraising efforts. Review all of the steps and sections that make an effective angel funding pitch. Also review the prep and deal points that are necessary to make your startup “Investor-Ready.”
The-Ultimate-Angel-Funding-Checklist-Final.pdf (8017 downloads )Startup Validations Worksheet
Use this worksheet to log all of the validations associated with your startup, including: key milestones reached, customer testimonials captured, product development tasks completed, and so on.
IR-Validations-Worksheet.pdf (6367 downloads )Microsoft Project 2016 Practice Project
This companion file to the Microsoft Project 2016 Practice Project book and course enables readers to follow along with each section of this guide. Use this free finished example project file to compare your progress or experiment with various actions on your own..
System-Implementation.mpp.zip (6015 downloads )Investor Pitch Outline and Worksheet
Use this funding pitch outline to build your slide deck and craft a compelling angel investor pitch. Use the startup validations worksheet section to take inventory of all the critical milestones your startup has achieved.
IR-Pitch-Outline-Worksheet.pdf (6652 downloads )
Elevator Pitch Worksheet
Use this worksheet to write a thoughtful and concise elevator pitch for your startup.