Cost Hiring Sales Stock Options 
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. Here’s why.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
To stay competitive, it’s important to invest in the latest technologies that can help streamline operations, reduce overhead costs, and improve customer service. If used carefully, these investments can help reduce overhead costs while generating new sources of income.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 2, 2015
It’s such a tricky balance between being cost-focused & scrappy versus being impractical with how you spend your time. For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. But alas I must scale with businesses and make money.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you. Two-f **g-billion!
Up and Running
DECEMBER 1, 2015
If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Make sure you understand all of your options before making any decisions. When business owners decide to go down the route of equity compensation, there are two primary options to choose between.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 1, 2023
Be honest with yourself VCs are now going to be looking closer at margins, cost structures and true sales, and product market fit. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). As CRO, Lester is responsible for sales, client success and marketing at WARP.
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