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Ask The VC - What Is the Standard Number of Shares to Create in a New Company? (askthevc.com)
5 points by brett on June 23, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


We did 5mil + option pool. If you are doing SV model, vanilla flavor is the only acceptable flavor for these numbers and the rest of corporate structure. People around here have a good idea of what percentage of the company say 10,000 of the company usually represent and if you are way off it's a bad sign.


I'd heard 10,000,000 as a standard number by one of the Startup School presenters. We incorporated with one million. Just don't issue them all right away!




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