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Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees

www.instigatorblog.com

Immediately makes them more like owners than employees, and doesn't have the same vesting timeline. Immediately makes them more like owners than employees, and doesn't have the same vesting timeline. Immediately makes them more like owners than employees, and doesn't have the same vesting timeline.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

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? The one thing that I think is missing is distributing equity to every single employee in the company regardless of title. Title Range (%).

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009. Hastings wasn’t married to the old distribution model precisely because he invented it.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Yammer is an awesome tool for fostering camaraderie on distributed teams. Score for you, score for them.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. 3 – Not the right team.