rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity. It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student. So you see my dilemma.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

To the right of that are five charts one each for: Current Equity Equity at Hire Base Salary Target Bonus Actual Total Cash Each of these bar charts shows the respective compensation for the management team on a percentile scale (compared to the cohort). Bookmark the permalink.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

It’s always tempting for entrepreneurs to accept seed funding from friends and family in exchange for a promise to repay the money or issue the lender equity in your company when it is formed. All tags: Forex Brokers. Login or register to tag items. Monthly archive. are not met. 4) You’re ready to raise money.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. In sum, Series Seed creates a level playing field between capped debt and equity documents in terms of speed and cost. 

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As a result, most people in Malaysia are not familiar with stock options or equity participation. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Nor does it have the equivalent of a successful tech-based exchange like the Nasdaq. Malaysia tried but there simply wasn’t enough liquidity, or institutional demand.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Buy it here.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

To find a programmer who will simply share equity with you, you need two things. Be realistic with the amount of work you’ll each be doing when you discuss equity. You need to make them confident enough to choose a lower salary and bet on equity over a much higher salary with a larger company. Tags: startupcto.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment?

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. 5 Points: You have a development shop that will work for equity. But equity-based work solves the misalignment of interests — there are just few dev shops willing to do it. But all that is for another post.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? These entrepreneurs are looking for a technical cofounder and that person who will build a prototype from their idea in exchange for equity in the business. Tags: startupcto. Start here. All rights reserved.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Lastly, once you have this framework in place, make sure to benchmark your salary, bonus and equity for each position in your company using CompStudy data which allows you to narrowly focus on companies that meet your profile and the executive position in question. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

But you can still reel in good people - if youre generous with your equity. Offer them a big chunk of equity, or theyll go to a company thats actually selling its products - and where half of 1% is more likely to one day be worth some real money. Close the equity gap, and hiring will get a lot easier," Ravikant suggests.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. Printed from: [.] Share and [.]

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Basically, the kind of technical people you want for a startup — whip smart, adaptable, willing to work long hours for equity instead of cash and highly competent — that person is probably already out there, doing her own startup. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting.

Cofounder 40

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

What may actually work is approaching somebody and telling them, “look, I have 50k to get this prototype up and running, you can either take it all, or get some cash and equity if you like my idea and you think it’s gonna work&#. Tags: startupcto. Mark 15 Nov 10 at 3:11 pm [.] to help him develop the idea.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Many if not most seed investments in startups these days are done in the form of convertible debt, which is a loan that can convert to equity in a subsequent financing. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Full Archives. Recommended For You. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Owen Thomas on Twitter.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 22, 2012

Once you decide to check email, follow this pattern: Quickly scan your inbox for important emails and mark them as ‘Priority’ (using a tag or star). I use tags in Gmail for this. Archive them all. Mark any other emails that are important, but not time sensitive, as ‘Later’.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. to JVP and Carmel, the highest performing funds. . Facebook Inc.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. Dividing equity between founders » Home.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There’s a missing myth #0: “If my company is successful and I’m making a good salary and my equity is worth millions, I will be happy.&# Tags: startupcto. Brooks Talley says: October 13, 2006 at 5:15 am All in all, this is some good advice that would-be entrepreneurs should read. However, it could be more complete.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding. Tags: startupcto. This is the third in a series of posts on how to form your own startup from scratch.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. To keep the equity we out-sourced. Best of luck!

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

Basically the survey collects salary, cash bonus and equity information for the top executives in private companies (mostly venture- and preventure-backed companies). One is that company founders have a significant discount in terms of cash compensation (but obviously a premium in equity). Bookmark the permalink.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Tags: startupcto. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

5: Raising Money : The higher your evaluation is, the more equity you have to work with. Posted by: GUCCISTORE | August 22, 2010 9:19 AM to be honest, i like 5: Raising Money: The higher your evaluation is, the more equity you have to work with. Stay involved in the hiring process as long as you possibly can. Beg, borrow and steal.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: startup programming language startupcto. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment?

Fractional CTO 40

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. He thinks, that with $1 million in investment, he can make this business successful.

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Altgate

MARCH 4, 2009

The questions focus on cash and equity compensation for executives (about 20 titles covered) and board members and then it looks at a bunch of attributes of the executives and the company. Well, I guess all that raving has gotten me a role in advising the backers of the survey on the next generation of the survey: CompStudy 2.0.

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Altgate

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Below is another interesting chart on founder equity for tech companies. Basically it says that “all founders are not created equal.&# If you’re the CEO and a founder, then you median equity holding is 21%, whereas if you’re CTO that number drops to 9%. I’ve always found this chart amazing to me.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Apr 11, 2007 [.]

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Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

I’m a visual person so here’s how I see it: Entrepreneurs start companies and the founders (“F&# in my chart) invest capital which they grow with sweat equity and then limited partners (“LPs&# ) invest capital via VCs which in turn grows the pie to the eventual “exit&# (which comes in the form of M&A or IPOs).

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? People link better to non commercial But we know full well that on launch day the www.startup.com/blog will 301 to blog.startup.com, but we don’t 301 the articles they become the landing pages of the sites keeping the backlink equity they have built up Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz 1.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. Well said.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 22, 2008

You know how when you’re benchmarking public equities the data sets always leave out performance from the 1929 crash and most of the following decade? Bookmark the permalink. ← How Madoff Made Off Washington Out Of Control → Comments are closed.

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