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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

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Nov 22 , 2010. This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Whatever approach you use, it should be the value of your company that you would sell or finance your business at right now. The second bracket is Director level managers and key people (engineering and design superstars for sure).

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. It is gently laying the foundation for a subsequent financing, helping the CTO set sensible milestones to be achieved that can demonstrate execution skill and release cycle management.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. These include: ยท       Vesting of Founder Stock.   First , dividends.

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This Week in Venture Capital โ€“ Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

If I ever say anything less than positive, I have no vested interests in doing so. In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) LendingClub.

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. He raised less financing than originally planned but was able to launch the site and was running a business by the time his classmates graduated 9 months later.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. Go vest yourself. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Itโ€™s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. Investors Companies. Want more entrepreneurial goodness?

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Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere Show No. 1: Richard Witten and Kathryn Minshew

Steve Blank

Of the cohort that just graduated I think eight are completely self-sufficient and actually revenue positive and another 10 are in Series A round financing. . Kathryn Minshew , a former management consultant at McKinsey , is CEO and co-founder of TheMuse.com , a career platform helping 40+ million people build amazing careers.