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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

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Nov 22 , 2010. I got this formula from a big compensation consulting firm. But it is based on a common practive in compensation consulting. The second bracket is Director level managers and key people (engineering and design superstars for sure). Musings of a VC in NYC. MBA Mondays Archives. Next Post Prev Post.

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

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Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. How long should people vest – four years? Investors routinely subject founder shares to vesting, but there is no rule that says that founders cannot, or should not, impose vesting on themselves. And the vesting doesn’t necessarily need to be time-based either.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Cancel Flag Answer 2 Comments • Mar 9, 2010 Cheers Anon - EPIC answer! +1 1 and lots of thanks for articulating this so well Matthew Carroll • Nov 3, 2010 I'm curious how relevant this answer is now, one year later. is lowered.

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

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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. 9 – Do not cut your losses a la Pivot at the right time. 3 – Not the right team.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. Tiny, contracting market. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post !

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) Like what?!

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