By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker Originally posted on LinkedIn Crowdfunding has gone mainstream! Crowdfunding platforms across the world raised $16.2bn in 2014 – a growth of 167% vs. 2013. In the past, crowdfunding as a means of financing a business was a novelty, a rare exception to the traditional methods of bank loans, credit [...]
By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker Authors of The Purpose Is Profit: The Truth about Starting and Building Your Own Business A startup typically goes through several rounds of funding from different investment sources as it expands. One of those sources is the “friends and family” round – one of the most common [...]
By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker Recently, I was at a technology meet-up in New York, and it seemed that every attendee was an employee working for a startup owned and controlled by someone else. On the one hand, I can appreciate the importance of being a loyal employee – as long as you are [...]
By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker Eyebrows rose recently when it was announced that WeWork, which is basically an office leasing company, was valued at a whopping $5B. The valuation was set when the company raised $355 million in Series A funding last December. The reason the four-year-old company, which divvies up rented office space and [...]
By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker How to split equity is one of the most important decisions a founding team will make. Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman wrote that nearly 40% of startup teams spend a day or less hammering out an agreement. They frequently want to get it over with - often with a [...]
