Who’s Drafting Your Pitch Deck?
The following thoughts and links should provide some basic insight into how to produce an effective pitch deck that cleanly and accurately reflects your company and its potential.
Selected Offering Exemptions
To help you understand all of the available private offering exemptions, we’ve compiled details on the old Reg D avenues, and the new crowdfunding ones, into a single page and have created a handy chart for your review.
Here’s Why Dallas Is Primed For ‘Series A’ Funding
Series A is coming in Dallas and here are three reasons why.
Finding Angel Investors In Texas
One of the most common questions I get from my startup clients is, “Can you help me find investors?” The answer is always a very lawyerly, “Well, yes and no.” I generally hate it when people say that, but it’s […]
Charting the Landscape of Series Seed Investing in North Texas
This was drafted in 2015 and was our first review of our early-stage financings. It’s an exciting time in North Texas for startups. All indications are that we are on the verge, if not already in the midst of, a […]
Regulation A+: Good News For Non-Accredited Investors
This blog was originally published in September of 2015 but was revised in October of 2024 and is still accurate. Recently released Regulation A+ rules are creating excitement for early-stage ventures that didn’t previously have access to VC capital and […]
Liquidation Preferences & Convertible Notes
It’s no secret that entrepreneur-turned-VC, Mark Suster, generally isn’t a fan of convertible notes. Here at Vela Wood, we’re fairly pro convertible notes when used responsibly in certain situations. Despite Suster’s dislike of convertible notes, he still looks out for […]
Title IV Of The JOBS Act Has Been Passed
Well, it only took 3 years, but the SEC has finally published a fact sheet on the final rules of Title IV of the JOBS Act, known as Regulation A+. In laymen’s terms, this means that everyone will be able […]
Contemporaneous Crowdfunding
A client who recently launched an intrastate, equity-based*, crowdfunding campaign in Texas called me a few weeks ago with an interesting question: “Can we do an accredited investor, interstate, equity-based crowdfunding campaign at the same time?” After some research, I called […]
Keep Your Early Rounds Small, Your Valuation Reasonable & Close Quickly
This blog was originally published in December of 2014 but was revised in July of 2024 and is still accurate. Dallas has emerged over the past decade as a thriving center for startups. The communication and shared knowledge in the […]