thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. Vest, young man.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. March 3, 2009 9:54 PM surya said. March 3, 2009 10:02 PM Sean Murphy said. March 3, 2009 11:15 PM kareem said. March 3, 2009 11:28 PM Jon said. Dont even go there.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

The options typically vest monthly over 1-2 years with 100% single-trigger acceleration and no cliff. Although the advisor is on a vesting schedule, you should expect them to add most of their value up-front—that’s normal. Does this stake need to have vesting schedule? What percentage stake is “reasonable&# ?

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Advisory Board Cap Table Vesting Equity 44

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. Several weeks after Zuckerberg and the team move to Palo Alto for the summer, co-founder Eduardo Saverin finally pays a visit. Also, be sure to include vesting for all founders. ► 2009. (7).

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Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009. In 2009 many deals got done at $4-5 million pre and in the past few years some of these deals have gotten done at $10-12 million pre (or higher).

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Third, if you sell the company before the Series B, all un-issued and un-vested options will be cancelled. Do you mean the shares go to the founders? What if the founder already included an option pool in the existing shares outstanding? You are already compensated through your founder’s shares. VC: How about 12%?

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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.”. 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.”.

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