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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

I’ve recruited an Advisory Board including officials from the CIA and the State Department; leaders from major family offices; and a former major party Presidential candidate. . The CEO is ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup all the way to an exit. Q: What have you built so far?

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

I’ve recruited an Advisory Board including officials from the CIA and the State Department; leaders from major family offices; and a former major party Presidential candidate. . The CEO is ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup all the way to an exit. Q: What have you built so far?

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

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Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board. Typically for an Advisory Board it ranges from 1/10th of percent to 1/2% and for Board of Directors from 1/2% to 2%. Are there other tools that you’ve used that you think would be helpful to share with other entrepreneurs and founders?

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Advisory Boards

BeyondVC

Trust me, I am all for advisory boards. Many entrepreneurs or management team put together advisory boards to get real expertise on product direction, the market, and to expand their network to reach new customers and partners. The post Advisory Boards appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Startup Stock Options Are Not Reliable Compensation

Startup Professionals Musings

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% compensation entrepreneur startup stock options business' 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% It’s a huge gamble. Marty Zwilling.

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How Much Stock Would Convince You To Join A Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% For example, 200,000 shares may sound like a lot, but if the startup has issued 20 million (a common starting point), that’s just 1% of the company.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

venturehacks.com

Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. But investors don’t take these mock advisory boards seriously. Does this stake need to have vesting schedule?