www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2017

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. Stock vests for 4 years. Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Wait a second.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. The founders along with all the other employees would vest their stock over 4 years (earning 1/48 a month). Some have no cliff.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. These kinds of connections seldom emerge from middle management who view the immediate threats more than the long-run benefits. It’s clear that America has a vested interest in promoting entrepreneurship in many regions in the country to stimulate innovation & job creation.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers. I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture. Vesting equity equally divided into set milestones, in this case: 5% vest after design phase. 5% vest at clickable prototype.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. How long should people vest – four years? Investors routinely subject founder shares to vesting, but there is no rule that says that founders cannot, or should not, impose vesting on themselves. And the vesting doesn’t necessarily need to be time-based either.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Although it may not feel like it now while you’re in the trenches trying not to die, you’re living what lots of people (especially older, middle-management types) consider the dream.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. The post-mortem of ArsDigita takes the cake for candor and illustrating in graphic detail what goes on when investors and startup management have a falling out from the startup’s perspective.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Comment Jason Crawford , Co-founder & CTO at Kima Labs 25 votes by Abinash Tripathy , Anon User, Dean Blackburn , (more) Chris Dixon says it all in a post titled "There Are Two Kinds of Pe. more) Sign up for free to read the full text.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Even still, regardless of the initial equity split, you should seriously consider vesting your founders shares over at least two years. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Of course, holding key assets and money always provide leverage to management rights as well as economic rights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Even still, regardless of the initial equity split, you should seriously consider vesting your founders shares over at least two years. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Of course, holding key assets and money always provide leverage to management rights as well as economic rights.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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