1999 Employee Technical Review Vesting 
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. This “we’re all in it together” kept founders and employees aligned on incentives. Here’s why.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#. I know not everybody agrees.
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