Business Model Management Metrics Vesting 
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. So managing risk in a startup is less about compliance, it’s more about being as brave and ambitious as you can without breaking things. Creating this value is anchored in finding a repeatable, scalable business model.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 1, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.
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Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2010
As a founder I fought with VC’s over vesting as they brought in a new CEO and walked me out the door. As a board member I negotiated with founding CEO’s over vesting when I thought it was their time to go. I’ll offer that both entrepreneurs and VC’s have the wrong model for founding CEO equity compensation.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2010
The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. Will they tailor your vesting to your contribution as a founder? These VC’s are skilled in helping you search for the business model. Your potential business model?
Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values. You can vary both valuation and term-sheet assumptions (in the gray boxes) to assess the impact on the values of the business.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. VCs with large funds (~>$200M) need investments in Unicorns to make their own business model work.
Business Plan Blog
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Transparency: Social enterprises face the challenge of building trust with their stakeholders and thus have an additional incentive to provide ample amounts of transparency in their success metrics. Compensation & Wages: This issue is significant for a social enterprise.
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