ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Vested Technology is a recruiting-automation platform that works alongside teams to identify, engage, and hire passive candidates. Prior to his role at Vested Technology, co-founder and CEO Akash Srivastava worked on Wall Street. He spent $17k to launch Vested Technology’s MVP.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Vested Technology is a recruiting-automation platform that works alongside teams to identify, engage, and hire passive candidates. Prior to his role at Vested Technology, co-founder and CEO Akash Srivastava worked on Wall Street. He spent $17k to launch Vested Technology’s MVP.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

We have gotten used to treating one another as a means to our vested interests, thereby plaguing the very essential humanitarian value of mutual ethics, respect, love, and compassion. Conversely, employees who feel that their work has a deeper purpose are happy to give 100% of their effort to the company and its customers. .

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Framework United States Employee Vesting 191

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

The lawyer will charge you for more than the initial conversation. Having a successful negotiation where you get a reasonable equity position with vesting over four years and a salary going forward only to find yourself working at a place you don’t want to be is probably not a great result? What are the specifics of the 2%?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

The lawyer will charge you for more than the initial conversation. Having a successful negotiation where you get a reasonable equity position with vesting over four years and a salary going forward only to find yourself working at a place you don’t want to be is probably not a great result? What are the specifics of the 2%?

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CTO CTO Hire Equity Vesting 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

It becomes a large part of the conversation in our partners’ meeting afterward. A large part of our post meeting conversation was how we felt the individual seemed to be of low integrity. Perhaps VC isn’t the vest route for this individual.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2016

He has military haircut, Kevlar vest and a gun. A Smokey the bear with a Kevlar vest and a gun. Instead of casting a spell she engaged us in witty conversation. We join the line at the counter where you order and then they bring your food to you. It is the day of the Orlando Massacre and I reflect on the state of the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in. And finally … Since I have this conversation private all the time … No. Take Maker Studios.

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Churn Rate Vesting Viral eCommerce 371

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. If you get a smart person on the board?—?just Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Postal Service did some research into the effectiveness of print over digital marketing channels (of course, they have a vested interest in proving that print still holds value!), Branded tchotchkes don’t further your conversations with prospects, whereas great sales materials do. In fact, the U.S.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Stock options are issued to employees usually through an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) and include what is called a “vesting period.” The vesting period, often three or four years, frees up a percentage of the options for the employee to purchase the longer they stay at the company. Restricted stock: . When cash flow is poor.

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Equity Employee Stock Options Vesting 60

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2013

No, it’s not always easy when emotions are running high, but a ‘weak’ response can often stabilize a harsh conversation and prevent damage to the underlying relationship. Try to stay serious and focused and keep the conversation as brief as possible. Problems in the Now category require an immediate, solution-based conversation.

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Turkey Vesting Conversion Leadership 145

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

While he kept bringing the conversation back to their big valuation I tried to steer the conversation back to how they were going to deal with: training the influx of new hires – in both culture and job specific tasks. They had doubled headcount from 100 to 200 in the last year and were planning to double again.) the company had.

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Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” But as with many people who have a vested interest in fast rounds being assembled, they don’t quite get why it is so important that VCs actually take their time. Both are right.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Last month I joined Bolster and compensation consulting firm J.Thelander for a conversation on building and compensating boards in the most effective way possible. This is an important topic, and I wanted to share and emphasize a few insights from the conversation. If you’re interested in watching the full session you can do that here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Turns out this conversation is pretty important and what many people want to do. Also, lost of people leaving comments on websites and having a dialog with other users.

Technical Review 286

Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in. So positive chips are a great signal for me. But chips come in multiple flavors and it’s a fine line between positive and negative.

Churn Rate 150

Churn Rate Vesting Dilution Europe 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, And in public companies we used to mockingly rename their titles to CVO … Chief Vesting Officer. Zynga and others. There’s no place for that in a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

As I sat in the dark hallway with the sounds of a loud conversation in Portuguese pouring through the door, only one thought was blazing through my head: had we pushed it too far? My mind raced. Today was supposed to be one of the biggest days of my career, but it was quickly becoming my worst.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Here is some of our conversation. A business idea that might sound simple in conversation can transform into a multitentacled hydra when you actually map out the variables and pieces involved. In addition, there are times when you may want to hold your cards close to your vest.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Managing shopper experience for medium-sized eCommerce businesses presents a lot of opportunities for conversion testing, and the ability to see real and immediate revenue results when tests are successful. This one small change led to an additional 110 orders, bringing in an additional $43,230 in revenue in a 2 week period.

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Revenue Caching Software Review eCommerce 124

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 17, 2013

Assume you hire someone and grant them 10,000 options with monthly vesting of four years with a one year cliff. That means that after one year, they get 25% of their options and then start vesting the remaining options monthly at a rate of 1/48 (208.3 options / month, or 2,500 / year.) This makes no sense to me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

That’s not a “conversation&# – it’s content driving you to his website where he monetizes based on the number of eyeballs he drives there. I have a vested interest – not just due to an investment in Ad.ly I would argue that they already do. I assure you Ad.ly We care deeply about that.

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Advertising Technical Review Affiliate SEM 277

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The individual who had executed the test had a vested interested in making sure that ‘A’ was the winner. When you hear a phrase like that, you know the person has a vested interest in making sure that the test shows a certain answer. As she said, this changed the whole conversation. So just fess up, say “yeah, that’s possible.”.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company. He writes: The premises of this conversation are very complicated. Vesting equity equally divided into set milestones, in this case: 5% vest after design phase. 5% vest at clickable prototype.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2021

Here are four tough conversations you may have to have along the way, with some suggestions on how to navigate them. All of these conversations need to come with a point of view of why independence and diversity matters to your company, a lot of empathy, and appreciation for the value the person brings to the table.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. Co-founder equity should have vesting periods (or lapsing repurchase rights) so if a co-founder departs substantially earlier than others, their stake in the business is accordingly smaller. Ideation/IP.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. And they have a vested interest in this success. Recycled Capital has played a very important role.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

Deep breath] There are five conversations about money I’ve had with zero to a handful of people in private that I’ve been wanting to write about. And you lose out on great talent if you can’t at least have these conversations. Don’t assume everyone can just eat ramen and sleep on vesting options.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But if we were unique in a different dimension, that would turn the conversation into feature X versus Y. But if we build feature Y, those same competitors will then have built feature Z, and we’ll still be behind. But we’re losing business today because we don’t have feature Y. … All of those statements are true!

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Buy them dinner because “good conversations should take place over good meals.”. >> Start their salary/vesting on the first day of the vacation and then let them be off for two weeks (this is worth it in extreme cases where you are really worried about the gap between them accepting and starting).

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Hiring Vesting Salary Naming 147

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

5:26] Typeform really seems like more of a conversation in comparison to a regular form– how often do you fight the idea that people perceive it as ‘just a form where they only need the data’? [7:55] And if you're listening and you have not experienced Typeform, I mean, it really feels more like a conversation.

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Marketing Differentiation B2C PR 77

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. Co-founder equity should have vesting periods (or lapsing repurchase rights) so if a co-founder departs substantially earlier than others, their stake in the business is accordingly smaller.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

A friend had an amicable breakup with a cofounder who wanted to leave and gave him a full extra year of vested equity as a token of goodwill for all his hard work. Say you have a 50/50 cofounder on standard 4 year vesting who does an amazing job helping you get v1 of the product out, and then colossally screws you at the end of year 2.

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Cofounder Technical Review Vesting Ratchet 20

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Organizational leadership is rarely vested in the lone genius, a.k.a. Ultimately you’ll have higher-impact conversations and be seen as more likeable and trustworthy. That’s the recipe for a rewarding conversation. To lead, you need followers and colleagues who trust you.

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Artificial Inteligence Investment Bankers United States Vesting 182

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2022

The ‘average’ startup offers a 90 day period post employment where you have to exercise any vested stock options before forfeiting them back to the company. And finally, two conversations to have with yourself. Extend Your Stock Option Exercise Period.

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View from Seed

APRIL 11, 2016

With texting and SMS and chat, for instance, there’s less vested interest in the conversation and how the other person feels. With regards to speech versus text, I think it breaks away a lot of social and emotional barriers to use spoken messages instead of written. It can invite a lot of bad behavior.

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