YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

You may have often wondered, why do businesses hire consultants in the first place? It can seem puzzling to the untrained eye, but read on and you’ll see not only why businesses hire consultants, but why they need them. Consultants can often provide a team of people to carry out the work necessary while being cost effective.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Hire Professional Services. You can claim the return cost of train tickets, for instance, so you can travel to your client’s town for a meeting, but you can’t then add additional train costs if you choose to travel further for personal reasons. The same applies to travel expenses. Share the Load.

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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. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Competition can be tough among law firms, so it’s important to hire a developer to build you a website that stands out from the crowd. Consider creating a blog with relevant content; you can either write your own or hire a writer to do them for you. Hire Capable Staff. The benefits they provide should justify any cost.

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Altgate

JUNE 25, 2012

One who attracted much attention is David Choe, the graffiti artist hired to paint the company’s first headquarters. Mark Pincus of social gaming company Zynga recently confronted a similar problem when he tried to reclaim equity that he felt he had over-allocated to some early hires. They fail to include vesting terms (i.e.,

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2012

With a four-year vesting schedule and a six-month “cliff” or trial period, you can get others to join in on the fun of startup, and make progress without expending cash. Outsource: Don’t hire people, use independent consultants who come highly recommended from your peers when you need to bring in expertise. Bootstrap 1. Bootstrap 5.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Startup employees calculated that a) their hard work could change the odds and b) someday the stock options they were vesting might make them into millionaires. The stock trickled out over four years, as you would “vest” 1/48 th of the option each month. Essentially the company sells them the stock at zero cost, and they reverse vest.

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Altgate

AUGUST 25, 2012

One who attracted much attention is David Choe, the graffiti artist hired to paint the company’s first headquarters. Mark Pincus of social gaming company Zynga recently confronted a similar problem when he tried to reclaim equity that he felt he had over-allocated to some early hires. They fail to include vesting terms (i.e.,

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Today, in steps 10-12 I want to discuss with you raising your first round of money, hiring to develop and maintain your company culture, as well as defining your role in the management of your startup. But never give away shares without vesting. Learn how to hire and maintain your company culture. 10-20% for employees.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Let’s look at some specifics: 1.

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Gust

APRIL 9, 2014

Therefore, to avoid dilution to its existing equity holders, all a company has to do is not hire any more employees who get options, or take any more money from investors.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Before hiring an advisor, be sure to look into their years of service, legal fees, and track record in successfully establishing growth-oriented ESOPs. You need to decide what kind of plan you want, how much stock you want to buy, how many employees will be included in the plan, and what kind of vesting schedule there will be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2013

This problem can be avoided by incorporating immediately after early discussions, and issuing shares to the Founders, with normal vesting and other participation rules. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Do the same for every business partner or employee you may hire.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

This problem can be avoided by incorporating immediately after early discussions, and issuing shares to the founders, with normal vesting and other participation rules. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Do the same for every business partner or employee you may hire.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

They staffed the team with several veteran engineers and augmented it with talented new hires that had expertise in areas outside of Stryker medical’s core competencies including aptitudes useful in developing key new technologies for advanced patient surfaces and mattresses. Moreover, Stryker’s bed had come in way over cost.

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Find and hire one or more developers Pros: Implementation Speed - Developers working full time will be much more efficient for you and your product since they’ll be dedicated to your company. Communication - Hiring a technical employee early on can sometimes result in a founder developer gap.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 27, 2016

This is the classic “hire people smarter than you” which is harder said than done. Total = 0.75% for 3 advisors that vest as you see fit to help you over the next 1–4 years (more on vesting below). Vesting Schedules. Advisors typically ask to vest in equal installments over 48 months. 25% for regular advisors, .25-.50%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2011

This problem can be avoided by incorporating immediately after early discussions, and issuing shares to the founders, with normal vesting and other participation rules. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Do the same for every business partner or employee you may hire.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, this course of action would have cost the company something even more important–the trust of its guests and hosts. To honor the Alliance it had made with those former employees, Airbnb waived the usual vesting cliff so that they could exercise their stock options, and provided generous severance packages.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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 That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2021

You have a vested interest in making sure it works. You can track things manually through a spreadsheet, hire an accountant, or invest in cloud accounting tools like Xero and Quickbooks. Even if you decide your “business” is a hobby, it is a good idea to keep the costs separate so you know how much your hobby is costing you.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

However, the up-front costs of starting a manufacturing business can be difficult to overcome, and competition is abundant. Looking for a younger company to work with can help you to form a relationship with a business that is vested in the success of your enterprise. Additionally, hi-tech equipment will cost considerably more.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. VCs (and LPs) have a vested interest in having more data, whether they want to invest in your company / firm or not. They aren’t doing this viciously?—?they

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

“We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company.

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The Startup Lawyer

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thus, when you encounter a legal issue (like incorporation) you conduct a cost-benefit analysis of hiring a startup lawyer. I understand the need to ensure you are getting value for the small amount of capital you start with — I did the same thing when I hired a large firm earlier this decade for my startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2010

This problem can be avoided by incorporating immediately after early discussions, and issuing shares to the founders, with normal vesting and other participation rules. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Do the same for every business partner or employee you may hire.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Layer on the opportunity cost of choosing not to pursue lucrative alternatives offered elsewhere, and it’s easy to see how, if not under the right terms, the engineer #1 position is less than appealing. That is your opportunity cost.

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ithacaVC

JUNE 20, 2011

Cost is the overriding issue for startups when it comes to properly engaging a lawyer. My general retort on this point is this: expect to incur real lawyer costs and get over it. Lawyer time required (including vesting agreements for founders): 3 to 6 hours. Lawyer time required: 3 to 6 hours.

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Altgate

APRIL 28, 2012

Founders often believe that their own compensation is a ceiling beyond which they will not have to pay new hires. They soon learn that the rest of the management team doesn’t feel the same way, and often lose their best hires when they refuse to pay market rates. Vesting is a tailored way to keep execs on board. Myth number 2.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

4 Vesting. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. You usually dont get all of your stock up front; it vests over a period of time, starting from your first day at work.

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www.noamwasserman.com

MARCH 26, 2012

Founders often believe that their own compensation is a ceiling beyond which they will not have to pay new hires. They soon learn that the rest of the management team doesn’t feel the same way, and often lose their best hires when they refuse to pay market rates. Vesting is a tailored way to keep execs on board. Myth number 2.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

“We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

What if you have to make really tough calls on cutting costs, biz dev deals, fund raising and you violently disagree on direction? What if the person performs OK, but not great and you need to hire above him? I know that this could be achieved with simple vesting schemes, but there is a rub. Should he/she keep 50%? Who prevails?

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2021

When I encounter founders who know how to hire, or founders who are self-aware enough to know it’s an area they want to get better at, it’s a huge plus in our investment decision. It’s very hard to hire something if you don’t know what it looks like. So ahead of hiring, spend time with a few excellent people in their domains.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 18, 2016

But hopefully you were able to recoup the cost of it prior to starting this company. The cost of living will influence your salary a lot. Your cost to get a startup up and running in the Bay Area will probably be about 2-5x higher than say in Las Vegas. On the flip side, you may be generating some revenues to offset costs.

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