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> ..they took a massive 27% in equity for a tiny investment... Their website implies - at http://hackfwd.com/dilution http://hackfwd.com/dilution - that they i
by jackgavigan 13y ago
> ..they took a massive 27% in equity for a tiny investment...
Their website implies - at http://hackfwd.com/dilution http://hackfwd.com/dilution - that they invest a substantial amount, ranging from €91,000 for a single founder to €191,000 for three founders (although another document - http://hackfwd.s3.amazonaws.com/system/documents/4bd586/e2e8b66c7c32000034/hackfwd_offering_overview_final.pdf http://hackfwd.s3.amazonaws.com/system/documents/4bd586/e2e8... - says that they invest "up to" these amounts).
It would be interesting to hear from some actual HackFWD alumni how much they actually invested.
EDIT: If they did actually invest those amounts, taking 27% in equity would not be unreasonable. If, however, they were invoking the "up to" qualifier and offering to invest much smaller amounts in return for the same amount of equity, then that would raise a question mark.
- mikk0j 13y agoIt wasn't "up to". It was those amounts stated in the docs, using only the number of founders (from one to three) as the proxy.
- michuk 13y agoJust as Mikko hinted, most startups took 191k for 27% of shares. The thing to remember is that HackFwd gets diluted in next rounds together with the founders, there are no anti-dilution clauses in Geek Agreement (which is public, btw).