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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

SoCal CTO

For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. For example, suppose you're just two founders and you want to hire an additional hacker who's so good you feel he'll increase the average outcome of the whole company by 20%. Stock vests for 4 years.

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How to Launch Your Own Startup Part 4 (money, culture and becoming a manager)

The Next Web

Today, in steps 10-12 I want to discuss with you raising your first round of money, hiring to develop and maintain your company culture, as well as defining your role in the management of your startup. But never give away shares without vesting. Learn how to hire and maintain your company culture.

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The Most Important Skill You Never Learned – Expert Tips To Solve Problems like Top Strategy Consultants  

YoungUpstarts

While we all solve problems, managers and consultants are professionals — they’re hired and paid to do so. Iconoclastic management scholar Henry Mintzberg, one of the first to study what managers do, found they spend much of their time solving problems. First, develop a well-specified statement of the problem.

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How to Become a Fractional CMO

Duct Tape Marketing

The key to successfully managing this type of schedule? Having excellent project management skills and being able to prioritize tasks effectively across all your clients’ projects. Effective project management skills are key in managing a flexible schedule. But have you considered going fractional?

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Why Your Business’s Purpose Should Be More Than Making Money

Up and Running

Staunch in his belief in paying workers a respectable wage and in hiring women, people of color, and individuals with disabilities for high-paying jobs when doing so was not an accepted practice, he virtually created the American middle class. Develop a framework for social responsibility.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. So managing risk in a startup is less about compliance, it’s more about being as brave and ambitious as you can without breaking things. This may mean straddling the line between governance and management when necessary.

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The Long Arc of Startup Teams: How Founders’ Approach to Talent Evolves

View from Seed

Even experienced startup execs who have hired and built teams sometimes find there are nuances to learn between building a team within a larger company versus hiring the first dozen folks in a startup. To people and culture management in general? A middle manager layer after that? It’s a moving target.

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