venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Don’t lose this game.

Option Pool 68

Option Pool Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Warrant 68

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). At a $1 million, pre-money, with an investment of $500K, that would leave 67% of the company for the founders and initial option pool.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

venturehacks.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Advisors can help you think through business challenges, make key introductions and/or offer personal/management advice. The Option Pool Shuffle. © 2007 Venture Hacks (not including the pictures) — Cutline Theme by Chris Pearson. They also help build credibility for your startup. How to pick a co-founder.

Advisory Board 50

Advisory Board Cap Table RSS Cofounder 50

www.startupnorth.ca

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 Table 1: Options Grants in Silicon Valley for Series A from VentureHacks The numbers from VentureHacks are guidelines. They are rough estimates.Any one have sample option grants in Canada? Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66

Employee 41

Employee Founder Salary Equity 41

venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

but it’s manageable. Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. So can three founder companies (hello, @biz, @ev, and @jack). Learn more. Buy it here.

Cofounder 101

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 101