Look around and you’ll be surprised to see that biofuels are coming back in vogue. From 2004 to 2008, innovations in the biofuels sector fell to almost zero around the globe. While the future of the industry seems a bit uncertain, the immediate trends seem to suggest that things are coming back, at least for […]
Popular Trends in the World of Sustainable Investments
We’ve been reading a lot lately about what trends executives are seeing on wall street, and it seems that alternative assets and new world insights are the latest thing. This is encouraging news for us here at Marfa Advisors and our clients, too. It seems like investors of all types are moving towards investments which […]
How to Value a Startup
My General Feelings About Valuation As you know all too well, valuation has many aspects. Investors often talk about the pre-money or post-money valuation of a company at the time they invest. If you get aspects of the percentage of the common stock for your investment, and nothing else, this calculation can be straightforward. But, […]
Managing your Cap Table
I have had numerous discussions with startup founders about the forming their companies, fundraising, finding strategic partners, and cap tables. I discovered that like many entrepreneurs, founders know the basics about cap tables but not nearly enough. So I thought for the benefit of the team I’d put together a quick memo about the ins […]