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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

SoCal CTO

Wilson Sonsini and DFJ Gotham Ventures : The Option Pool Shuffle : Title Range (%) CEO 5 – 10 COO 2 – 5 VP 1 – 2 Independent Board Member 1 Director 0.4 – 1.25 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 I did find a few things for later points. Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66

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Reblog – Finance Fridays (Introducing the Cap Table and CTO)

ithacaVC

Here is the latest edition of Finance Fridays from Brad Feld called “Introducing the Cap Table and CTO” Every startup needs someone to be in charge of the Cap Table. Note how the new CTO Praveena implicitly negotiated to get her 15% founders shares after creation of the stock option pool.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Technology | Thursdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Managing Creativity. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays.

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Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Let’s face it.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about “ The one number you should know about your equity grant “ The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever – it doesn’t matter – just the % matters). CEO 5 - 10.

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