Simple Agreement For Future Equity

Our book this month is “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life” by Martin Seligman. It is an influential book about the way people explain success, failure, adversity, and disappointment to themselves. Seligman, one of the most important figures in the developmen ...  Show more

Back in 2018 we made the decision to invest in Lake Charles Louisiana. The thesis behind investing in this market is that the community is at the epicenter of a network of natural gas pipelines. Like some things in the energy industry, the timelines can be long and major projects ...  Show more

Today, we'll help you figure out how to find and position your startup idea's value. We'll talk through the Need/Gap/Swap framework, go through a few startups doing the value thing well and poorly, and we'll talk about a Magician on the Upper West Side.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Wall Street Skinny, we delve into the world of angel investing. Joined by Matt Naylor and Max Valverde, co-founders of the Milkless podcast, the discussion explores the essentials of evaluating investment opportunities, the importance of li ...  Show more

"Value Creation" - It's one of the most over-used terms in private equity today. What does value creation mean? What's wrong with how investors talk about their value creation approach? And how does ParkerGale think about its strategy for value creation? Operating Partners Jim an ...  Show more

Today’s episode is all about preferred equity — so we’re going to try and keep it light and fun. 

Firstly, we talk about what equity is and how preferred equity differs from it — then, we get into common reasons for using preferred equity in a real estate or pri ...