Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. 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? Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Pre-existing intellectual property.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

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. After a year, shares will vest in monthly or quarterly splits until the full grant is vested. percent to 3 percent range for engineer #1s.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. No Dave S. =

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” Plus you have to remember that these 200,000 shares could still be worth nothing in four years, depending on the “strike price” today, compared to the market price four years from now. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2013

He believed we had a weakness with his CTO. It would be yet another distraction for this fledgling CEO and he felt he needed to focus on biz dev, sales, marketing and fund raising. The CTO had at-will employment with no notice period. He had vested 18 months or so. This was not the first discussion I had had with the CEO.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Or it can be a public market comp analysis. 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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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.” Plus you have to remember that these 200,000 shares could still be worth nothing in four years, depending on the “strike price” today, compared to the market price four years from now. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. If the dev shop puts in $100 of (market-value) labor, they should be compensated for that amount in equity — just like an investor gets their share for $100 in cash. The discounts?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Marketing Intern. Office Space. Virtual Office. 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. Call Us: +1-855-629-6200. Mission Statement. Bookkeeper.

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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.” Plus you have to remember that these 200,000 shares could still be worth nothing in four years, depending on the “strike price” today, compared to the market price four years from now. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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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.” Plus you have to remember that these 200,000 shares could still be worth nothing in four years, depending on the “strike price” today, compared to the market price four years from now. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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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.” Plus you have to remember that these 200,000 shares could still be worth nothing in four years, depending on the “strike price” today, compared to the market price four years from now. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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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.” Plus you have to remember that these 200,000 shares could still be worth nothing in four years, depending on the “strike price” today, compared to the market price four years from now. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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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.” Plus you have to remember that these 200,000 shares could still be worth nothing in four years, depending on the “strike price” today, compared to the market price four years from now. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tiny, contracting market. works with the massive market that is YouTube. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Need legal advice?

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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. So a friend recently called to ask for advice on becoming the CTO of a startup. Let’s face it. you won the lottery). Wait a second.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Many companies that failed started during the recent financial crisis (and continues to suffer through), and some startups highlighted the larger market negativity as a reason for their ultimate demise. If there is no money out there for your idea, reassess whether there is a market for it, and reassess your approach. #16

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This is a far cry from a sustainable business, product-market fit, and a long ways from profitability in most cases. Even better, executives will negotiate the acquisition price of their company down; in exchange for a larger amount of post-acquisition retentio n equity and accelerated vesting.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. Big ideas and creative stuff either aren’t coming out of the.NET world, or.NET based projects/startups suck at marketing. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Help your business out.

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