Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2017

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for startup stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

When the Airbnb founders walked me through their model, how the hosts were also guests, how their community was developing, and what they’d learned from different markets like Barcelona and New York, it showed me that they were on top of Airbnb’s key business challenge, which is to build powerful marketplace dynamics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened to many companies in the last few years. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Employee Benefits. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. "We

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened to many companies in the last few years. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Marty Zwilling.

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Small Business Force

JULY 26, 2013

Then she addressed her employees and thanked them (none were shareholders) and said, essentially, "now on to a new adventure. "I I happened to know that of the two dozen employees that were there, more than half had been there for more than five years, several for nearly ten. Good and loyal employees are what underpin success.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Policies are an important part of managing employees. When you fire an employee immediately before a major block of stock options vest, what’s the right thing to do? Vest the options. That’s part of being a community of humans with emotions and faults. Beyond Policy.

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