Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These are usually characterized as owner-operated, with five employees or less, and less than $250,000 in sales. According to the Voice of Microenterprise (AEO) website, if one in three micro-enterprises in the United States hired an additional employee, the US would soon be at full employment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2013

These are usually characterized as owner-operated, with five employees or less, and less than $250,000 in sales. According to the Voice of Microenterprise (AEO) website, if one in three micro-enterprises in the United States hired an additional employee, the US would soon be at full employment.

United States 246

United States Dilution Startup .Net 246

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

These are usually characterized as owner-operated, with five employees or less, and less than $250,000 in sales. According to the Voice of Microenterprise (AEO) website, if one in three micro-enterprises in the United States hired an additional employee, the US would soon be at full employment.

United States 247

United States Dilution .Net Small Business 247

Berkonomics

JANUARY 13, 2022

You no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. Not many founders or entrepreneurs do experience the success of a favorable sale of the business they dreamed would make them rich. Others are diluted by subsequent investors to the point where there was nothing for them to celebrate at all in a sale.

Dilution 62

Dilution .Net Sales Entrepreneur 62

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. I could go on-and-on with all of the sales-blocking messages you will hear when you try to charge for a product. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

These are usually characterized as owner-operated, with five employees or less, and less than $250,000 in sales. If you can do one thing well, don't dilute your efforts until you have been turning a large profit over a consistent stretch of time.

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Dilution Chicago .Net Small Business 259

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

During 2019, our Net Promotion Score has dropped 15 points. When you do that much stuff, and you can measure almost everything… The result is that our ecosystem of data people are returning a lot more negative data when measuring performance of Marketing, Sales, User Experience and Customer Service. A Rationalizer subtly sows doubt.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Startup Equity For Employees. 3 Dilution. NOTE: If youre an attorney or tax accountant with experience helping startup employees with stock and option issues, drop me a note. The preferred stock held by investors has (as the name implies) more rights and privileges than the common stock issued to employees. 4 Vesting.

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Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

These include election or re-election of board members if required by the bylaws of the corporation, approval of any increases to stock option plans (which would dilute the worth of shares outstanding,) and approve any additions to the capital stock authorized to be issued. Requirements created by investment documents.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door. It will also minimize future dilution.

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The MCOP can serve a critical role as founders and other management team members are diluted down by rounds of financing or if their equity is not in the money. The ALP is the total amount of $ that preferred stock holders are owed on a sale of the company under their liquidation preferences. But when should the MCOP be adopted?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] First there comes a sense of relief, knowing that you no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. Not many founders or entrepreneurs do experience the success of a favorable sale of the business they dreamed would make them rich. Many fail multiple times. Hit the beach.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Dilution .Net Sales 48

Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

These include election or re-election of board members if required by the bylaws of the corporation, approval of any increases to stock option plans (which would dilute the worth of shares outstanding), and approve any additions to the capital stock authorized to be issued.

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Stock Options Balance Sheet Stock Common Stock 81

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The reason is that employees are investors too—oftheir time—and they want just as much to be able to cash out. Ifyour competitors offer employees stock options that might make themrich, while you make it clear you plan to stay private, yourcompetitors will get the best people. They just want to invest in this startup.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Friends & Family – High net-worth individuals with a passion for you and your industry. I also like to get a sale $$$ ASAP. High net-worth individuals familiar with the industry or credit cards.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s designed for small and mid size companies and it all started based on a focus of the employees. Our slogan is, “We heart employees,” and everything that we do is designed around usability for the employees.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Youllprobably get either preferred stock, which means stock with extrarights like getting your money back first in a sale, or convertibledebt, which means (on paper) youre lending the company money, andthe debt converts to stock at the next sufficiently big fundinground. [ Dilution is normal. 3% of your net worth.

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venturehacks.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Paul says, “Whenever you’re trading stock in your company for anything, whether it’s money or an employee or a deal with another company, the test for whether to do it is the same. Consider the opportunity cost of spending shares on employees and investors. We previously posted a table of market rates for employees.

Equity 40

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This can be a convenient shortcut to separate someone’s status (founder) from their role (employee or contractor or advisor, etc.) of the fully-diluted capitalization of the company. Founder directors often get the same initial acceleration as employee founders. Which founder agreement? Board member.

Founder 44

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. This is also known as the Net Promoter Score (NPS) question.

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