Customer Early Stage Founder Vesting Hiring 
venturehacks.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.
Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2010
The customary vesting model has founders vest their stock over 4-years , and when the founding CEO gets in over their head the VC’s bring in professional management. They also know that most founding CEO’s don’t scale past the early stage. The New Founding CEO Vesting Model. It’s My Idea and Hard Work.
venturehacks.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
In practice, you raise money or hire an employee because you need to, not because you want to. Say the equity equation tells you to pay a prospective hire above market. You should still pay the hire a market rate and save the company some equity. Say the equity equation tells you to pay a prospective hire below market.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
101 
Let's personalize your content