Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2017

Jonmichael Moy (Jon Michael Moy) may be a seasoned veteran of Silicon Valley, but this accomplished, dedicated technology executive with more than seventeen years of experience in management and operations, product and business development and marketing has now brought his talents to Toronto.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You can trust them to manage your organization on their own because they’ll do whatever it takes to be successful. Develop a competitive compensation package. Stock options, restricted stock, or performance shares can make your offer more attractive to the right candidate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Escalate all problems upward to senior management. Avoid the macho concept that only top management can solve problems, or address strategic challenges. An even better alternative could be stock options, linked to the long-term success of the company. Decisions made lower down always get more buy-in.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This could include tools such as automated customer relationship management systems (CRM), artificial intelligence (AI) for predictive analytics and market insights, or cloud-based solutions for data security and scalability. Additionally, consider offering incentives such as bonuses or stock options to reward employee performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it. It is really working.

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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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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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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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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. Struggling with effective time management. Hiring the right employees.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 18, 2024

If you elect your board members annually and for some reason aggressively change members, you will experience the steep learning curve required to get the newest board members up to speed to contribute with deep knowledge of the company and of your management style. And that’s not good. Why the difference?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. As the company goes from searching for a business model to growth , only then will they bring in a new “professional” management team to scale the company (along with a business development executive to search for an acquirer) or prepare for an IPO.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A business valuation through the rule of thumb approach is generally developed over a long time. Some reasons why include needing a more detailed picture of your company’s value, submitting taxes, outlining employee stock option plans, or presenting to investors or creditors. Rules of thumb in business valuation.

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup&# About this Blog , Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup covers everything a software or web developer needs to know to launch and grow a startup with no outside funding.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. A few companies got bought before the whole Internet-bubble thing fell apart, and we almost managed to get bought (for around $500 million, but that’s another story for another day.).

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

I spent years as a manager at a startup company. 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. Work on your management skills. Acknowledging your weaknesses as a manager is the first step to improving.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. 44 engineering management lessons – crowdspring.co/1x7TVkf. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. ” – crowdspring.co/1slKVZ2.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I work hard to create working relationships with my fellow non-management board members in the same way that every investor ultimately works to develop strong working relationships with founders. cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

It’s important you understand the risks, and start managing them. I managed that by simply being completely transparent about our financials (I still am). However, there is a way to help manage risks and to deal better with day-to-day challenges – and that is by having great co-founders. Remember, that’s precisely your job.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2018

When a small business startup manages to secure external investment magical things happen. Amongst the benefits of attracting external investors to a startup is helping to preserve owner resources, allowing growth to continue, accelerating research and development and product rollout.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

And some will willingly work for stock options, an amount to be negotiated based upon time spent and stage of corporate development. Some charge by the hour, making themself available much as an attorney, keeping track of hours spent on phone calls and emails with you.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter. Taking a campaign online and encouraging non-accredited investors to use a crowdfunding platform is a great way to show their support, manage the volume, and market your business. Management Resumes and Organizational Chart. Stock Option. Customer References.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Board meeting gets scheduled Nobody thinks too much about it until a week or two before Management team has a last-minute scramble to pull materials together Management is super focused on its daily work of … winning customers, signing biz dev, shipping product … so this prep is a last minute “fire drill” and is seen as a slight distraction.

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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. Flatten the hierarchical management structure. Ownership can be financial or psychological.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Tesla is not. Here’s why.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2020

The first order of business is to ensure that their basic requirements are met and that they have ample opportunities for professional growth and development. It helps for everyone to have a financial stake in the company such as profit sharing, stock options, and stock participation plans. How do you develop that?

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Board Effect

MAY 13, 2019

Let’s not waste time listing everything startups could be doing to more effectively manage their cap tables. When it comes to cap table management in startup companies, it’s unrealistic to expect perfection. The realistic demands of cap table management will increase as your business grows and matures—that much is a no-brainer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate.

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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.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker.

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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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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

And some will willingly work for stock options, an amount to be negotiated based upon time spent and stage of corporate development. Some charge by the hour, making themself available much as an attorney, keeping track of hours spent on phone calls and emails with you.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Research & Development. Managing Creativity. Research & Development. I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We had to learn how to be better at “load balancing & replication&# – meaning how we managed data across all the boxes since they weren’t centralized on one box. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Are they seeking more money, stock options, a pat on the back? Or it can be implied, like when employees and management tacitly agree to both embrace the company values and culture. Even an isolated breach can have a dramatic impact, since trust develops over time yet can shatter in a moment.

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