Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2015

Startup owners need to assume a three to five year wait for a liquidity event, such as acquisition or going public, before they can cash out. This is the purpose of a vesting schedule, which issues allocated stock over time. Key founder vesting should have no cliff. At that time the original split makes all the difference.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2020

Lower interest rates in combination with a limited supply contributed to the extension of the real estate cycle and that should continue in 2020, as long as no disruptive events (political, geopolitical, economic, etc.) Backed by historically-low rates, strong labor market and low home-ownership ratios, there’s still housing demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

The magic of the ‘live’ event is being re-born. The free on line is the digital sampling of the event with the real connection…. We are more interested in a niche fringe community than a mass event. Live, Intimate, Visceral, Exclusive (or Event). A community who vest their interests in each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Just a few of these terms include vesting, corporate structure, governance principles, financing strategy, valuation and exit strategy. His Strategic Exits Corporation provides M&A advisory services, and he is much in demand as a speaker at angel and entrepreneur events worldwide. . Raising money'

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

They assume that no adverse events will change the composition of the team.They also tend to take a very short-term view of the factors that should affect equity splits. They assume that no adverse events will change the composition of the team.They also tend to take a very short-term view of the factors that should affect equity splits.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Keep the valuations consistent with company progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. Success can be lonely because as with Kurt and Amy you find yourself surrounded by a bubble and often a bubble with vested interests in your actions.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   The risk-protection sense of a dividend is that the invested money makes some interest-like return, which makes it more likely the investor will receive some modest amount of earnings in the event the company doesn’t do well. These include: ·       Vesting of Founder Stock.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 24, 2012

They assume that no adverse events will change the composition of the team.They also tend to take a very short-term view of the factors that should affect equity splits. At the individual level, as the strategy and business model shift,the skills of some founders become more important than the skills of others and roles often shift.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Every community needs their “ambassadors&# who build relationships with leaders from other communities, who convince these people to come visit the community, who help organize events with local teams to get the cross-city interactions and who create awareness for the local talent. Every region needs its local media & events.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

If I ever say anything less than positive, I have no vested interests in doing so. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. So it is not uncommon for somebody to be skint when a big event such as a “ hen party &# is coming up and just need 200 quid for 2 weeks. Enter P2P lending. LendingClub.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

” - MIR Weighted Vest (~$130 on up) for providing an additional option for exercising, both at home and at the office. I’ve recently started wearing a 90-pound Mir vest at home and when running errands in my neighborhood. Using a weighted vest while working at a standing desk can be a meaningful workout.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

For example, a founder stock purchase agreement is 12+ pages long because founders can, have, and will fail and/or bail on startups (hence the vesting schedule & startup repurchase option). But in the event one of you genius hackers does this, please consider me for a job at your startup.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

For example, a founder stock purchase agreement is 12+ pages long because founders can, have, and will fail and/or bail on startups (hence the vesting schedule & startup repurchase option). But in the event one of you genius hackers does this, please consider me for a job at your startup.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While operating a tutoring business I was able to identify a demand for niche business software. While patterned after compression vests (which can only be worn for 20 minutes before losing its effectiveness), Jettproof's line of singlets, shorts, shirts, blankets, and many others can be worn or used the whole day.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller. In economics we call this a “demand curve shift” as outlined below.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Go vest yourself. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. However, vesting schedules reduce the difficult negotiation to simply and mechanically exercising the companies pre-agreed right to repurchase stock at the price it was issued.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description. In San Francisco one can find hacking events on a daily basis, as well as many unconference events where people get their hands dirty playing with code. 17 – Be unable to Attract Investors. Best, The Chubby Team.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

However, since you asked – next would be making a list of all the speakers at the events for my industry and personally reaching out to them for advice. Then decide if you can build more value on either end of that process to demand a higher premium. Invite them to an event that adds value to their lives. 5% I believe.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

4: Demand Excellence : Ensure staff are committed to and understand your vision. For example, tell the bar you are having a "birthday party" instead of a corporate event (which they would charge you $5,000 for). Attend the after-event parties. Personally I give more weightage to after event party. Beg, borrow and steal.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 It was just the command shell that demanded backward slashes. And that the coders in most demand now are Java coders. March 27, 2011 at 4:54 am.

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