Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs.

Software Review 381

Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , These days, start-up entrepreneurs like Parker do sometimes use equity not only to motivate key employees but also to help pay for consulting and other services.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I often have career discussions with entrepreneurs – both young and more mature – whether they should join company “X&# or not. So a friend recently called to ask for advice on becoming the CTO of a startup. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. This is part of my Startup Advice series.

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Stock Options Stock Liquidation Preference Option Pool 418

The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Startup employees are granted common shares out of something called an option pool. It is typical for employees to vest their options over four years with a one year cliff, which means a new hire must stay on the company for at least one year to see any shares. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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Engineer Dilution Option Pool Vesting 129

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Percent of the outstanding option pool: meaningless. Strike price of options: meaningless. Are there other tools that you’ve used that you think would be helpful to share with other entrepreneurs and founders? That’s where a good partner agreement comes into play. link] Peter Chee. link] Joseph.

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Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62