Customer Distribution Equity Option Pool 
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Parker found that equity as compensation helped build loyalty to his company -- even among consultants. But sharing equity can have pitfalls, too.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution.
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www.instigatorblog.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees Tweet Recently someone asked me for advice on how much equity they should give to their early employees. 1% but they’re not going to be overwhelmed by it, or insanely incentivized by that equity alone. I do believe that early employees should trade salary for equity.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 21, 2013
In many cases we have observed, the founders have given away too much equity to their first investors — typically angels and family offices, who have little experience with fast-growing startups or the venture capital funding model. Of course, not all of the fault in these lopsided structures lies with the angel investors.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So Angels In the big angel rounds that increasingly compete with series Arounds, the investors wont take as much equity as VCs do now. Nearly all customers choose the competing product, ajob.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers.
Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
The investors and the entrepreneurs are – or should be – aware that the price of the company’s equity is set by the market – in simplest terms, what an informed buyer is willing to pay. Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.
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