Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investing in the growth and development of your staff through training, continuing education, and professional certifications can help create a motivated and productive workforce, which will lead to improved business operations. Additionally, consider offering incentives such as bonuses or stock options to reward employee performance.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Make sure you understand all of your options before making any decisions. When business owners decide to go down the route of equity compensation, there are two primary options to choose between.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. Developers weren’t as in high of demand. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now.

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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We’re Hiring. What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer. Hiring and working with a lawyer is often confusing and daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. What should new entrepreneurs look for when hiring a lawyer? Hiring employees. We’re Hiring. Get Involved. Meet the Team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Invest in Employee Development: Investing in the growth and development of your employees is a clear indication that you care about their future. Mentorship programs and leadership training can also be valuable in developing future leaders within your organization.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 4, 2017

By narrowing down a specific market, you’re more likely to develop a great product this target audience must have, versus a good product that many people are interested in, but few are actually buying. See Also: How to Develop Your Business Strategy. Hiring the right employees. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. -

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

Aside from the time-consuming tasks of screening potential employees, interviewing, and re-hiring , losing and replacing employees is expensive. It is important to develop a retention plan right off the bat to keep employee turnover in your small business from becoming a very costly and aggravating expense. Hire the right people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

“the people you fire are more important to your [company''s] culture than the people you hire.” Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. 5 Ways to Hire the Best Talent for Your Startup Team – crowdspring.co/1ptyfds. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. HR & Legal.

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chrischandler.name

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You will require money if you plan on developing software. If you’ve considered finding and asking a developer for his or her time in exchange for sweat equity, I’m going to strongly advise you against it. Not only are these requests often derided, they are often insulting to the developer. So when is equity OK?

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Interestingly, one of the first things that you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good Quality Assurance organization cannot build a high quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. From hire to retire, how good is your company? How do you know?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

I started my company with 5 friends – one developer, one user interface designer, one visual designer, one marketing person, and a finance person. I was the most experienced developer at that time, and after we had built the first version of Wunderlist I quickly focused primarily on the business side. This is totally unique.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

When we decide to hire someone, the interviewers who were involved in the "hire" decision will sit down with the candidates resume and salary history and figure out what level they will start at. If we hire people in other cities, we will simply use industry-standard COLA adjustments to set salaries in other cities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

Make them owners with stock options and actions. Steve Jobs was a master of having team members own their work, with small things like developer names molded in the plastic cover of the Macintosh. Hiring, recognition, and promotion must foster a culture of focus on job results, commitment, and growth.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. We developed a kick-ass investor pitch and we started pitching it to family, friends, angel investors, and even venture capitalists for feedback.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Increased venture funding has been helping to develop a robust tech ecosystem with major hubs in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. Canada’s capabilities for developing tech talent are evident across a number of its post-secondary institutions, and technical education is also seeing investment from industry players.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I have spent a great deal of time studying the fundamentals of stocks, option trades, goal-setting, and public speaking. I’ve got to trust the team I’ve hired to do their job, so I can do the things that only I can do and not get caught up in minutiae. All my studying and hard work has resulted in a breakthrough.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Stock Option. Contact Information (for managers, directors, shareholders, developers if outsourced, attorneys, accountants, consultants). If you are more of a technical person and not a business leader by nature, make sure your investor knows that you intend to hire a CEO to take your place as soon as reasonably possible.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

When the Airbnb founders walked me through their model, how the hosts were also guests, how their community was developing, and what they’d learned from different markets like Barcelona and New York, it showed me that they were on top of Airbnb’s key business challenge, which is to build powerful marketplace dynamics.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 3, 2011

This Dallas-based startup is looking for people to fill the following positions: · Ruby on Rails Developer. Mobile Developers (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry). · Stock options. B2B Sales; Background in DB marketing, Loyalty marketing, Retail. · UI Designer / Graphic Designer.

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www.startupcfo.ca

MARCH 16, 2012

One way to deal with these issues to hire part time executives. Part time execs work when: You hire in non-core areas : Finance is super important to any company, but it is not a core aspect of the company’s mission and vision. Product definition, development and customer acquisition happen every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

So the tech team departed en masse to find the next great stock option scheme to make their big bucks. I hate when companies publish too much information about the total stock option allocations, the company valuations, the dilution faced in every round, etc. But we departed on good terms. But here’s the shitter.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. Without funding most tech startups will die. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. They’re betting on you.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. 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. TECHNOLOGY.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 11, 2019

Whether a fundraising event, hiring, or sales/partnership opportunity- these can be especially useful to make all parties move faster. Candidate Forcing Functions – are hard because you want to hire the best people, hire them fast, and keep your OpEx low. In the end, time will kill all deals.

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Term Sheet Stock Options Early Stage Agile 68

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They are people who we have almost hired over the years (sometimes more than once), but never have, people who are in our industry and are friends of Return Path. Sometimes they have a token stock option grant as advisors, sometimes they don’t. We have a few people who I think of an UnEmployees.

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The Startup Lawyer

APRIL 12, 2010

4) Is your startup hiring developers or designers? 5) Is your startup granting stock options or other equity compensation? 8) Is your startup signing contracts with third-party companies for business services (not for IP creation or development)? No –> 0 points. (3) Yes –> 5 points.

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The Startup Lawyer

APRIL 12, 2010

4) Is your startup hiring developers or designers? 5) Is your startup granting stock options or other equity compensation? 8) Is your startup signing contracts with third-party companies for business services (not for IP creation or development)? No –> 0 points. (3) Yes –> 5 points.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This breaks the conventional wisdom about pre-IPO stock options. Companies are required to price their employee stock options close to the “market valuation&#. It is called the 409A Valuation requirement from the IRS.

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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2012

After all, cash may be in short supply, but there’s a virtually endless amount of work to be done, from coding and web development, to PR, sales, general operations, or sage advice from an industry veteran. Many young tech startups reserve 15%-20% for employee stock options. It’s a logical solution. Plan upfront.

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Equity Stock Options Vesting Stock 116

Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Once again, please keep in mind that the documents from typical online incorporation services do not contain IP assignment provisions in connection with the purchase of founders stock or separate IP assignment documents. Hiring employees or third party contractors. Issuing stock options.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And as the company grows, it brings on new people and may decide to issue stock options to attract new staff and funding from investors. For instance, the cap table will help you with various possibilities while running business activities like available options and pre-money valuations faster. Total share ownership.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? When I find, and hire on options, the three perfect CEs/directors must I consider them co founders and treat them accordingly? Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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