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Topic

The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings (and Initial Coin Offerings)

Abstract

The goal of The Fairshare Model is to spark a movement to reimagine capitalism at the DNA level. A capital structure is a company's DNA--it defines ownership interests and voting rights--so everything that capitalism is (or can be) flows from the expression of qualities that originates in is capital structure.
Who is this presentation for?
People for like Big Ideas but who are practical; they like innovative ideas but also want a way to put them into practice. My principal target audience is composed of investors who may want to invest in a public startup someday. My secondary target audience of entrepreneurs willing to consider a public offering as an alternative to a private round from a venture capital round. Another important audience is made of attorneys, accountants, investment bankers and others involved in the startup ecosystem.
Prerequisite knowledge:
Interest in capital markets.
What you'll learn?
How the three different equity capital structures differ in their approach to valuation. The three are a "conventional capital structure," a "modified conventional capital structure" which is the VC Model, and the "Fairshare Model." You will also learn how it possible for investors to facilitate change in how venture-stage IPOs.

Profile

Karl Sjogren is the author of "The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings" and consulting CFO in the San Francisco Bay area. From 1996 to 2001, he was CEO of Fairshare, Inc., an online community of average investors that sought to make it less expensive for companies to market investor-friendly IPOs.