Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. Who is a real customer that I can talk to? How solid is the intellectual property?

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2013

As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. Who is a real customer that I can talk to? How solid is the intellectual property?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2010

As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. Who is a real customer that I can talk to? How solid is the intellectual property?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intellectual Property. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

They were then sued for trademark infringement by a foreign company who had no product, no customers and no employees in the US. He had a stock option vesting program and had vested a significant amount of his stock but not all. I funded a US company that bought a URL and a brand name and filed for a trademark.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

They financed their companies, to the extent possible, in a manner minimizing the cost of capital, planning for organic growth in the number of customers served and in associated revenues. Flippers financed by venture capitalists are more likely to hire executives having high level profiles and previous exit experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. September 9, 2009 12:36 AM Richard Tibbetts said.

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Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Please keep in mind that even if a company is incorporated, founder stock purchase agreements with repurchase rights over unvested stock if founders leave are not included with the documents from typical online incorporation services. Creating intellectual property. Hiring employees or third party contractors.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking such revenue can be a challenge but is possible to approximate the revenue impact of PR activities via the use of unique URLs, customer surveys, etc. Any function within your startup that involves iterative learning, passion and/or close proximity to your customers should not be outsourced. Passion Cannot be Outsourced.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It has configurable rules, local customization, policies, and even track absence and productivity trends within the company. It uses data analytics to provide insights on employee qualification, helping streamline your entire hiring process. Many businesses are small enterprises that hire a global workforce with differing needs.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

By which I meannot that it has to make something physical, but that it has to haveone thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom workfor individual clients. Custom work doesnt scale. An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is thatyou know youre making something at least one customer wants.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? They've got a handful of customers, maybe a few thousand users, and some initial traction.

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