Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The company, Danatec, sold paper-based course materials for corporate trainers to use in safety training of employees. But with fast growth, that promise can be diluted. Your business success is influenced by many different types of people: prospects, customers, employees, funders, suppliers, distributors and even the public at large.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2024

This episode provides valuable strategies for retailers and partners in defending their revenue and enhancing sustainability. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:08): Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Questions I ask Patton Gleason : [00:54] What is re-commerce? [04:09]

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Dilution, overvaluation, free money, TNSTAAFL, and how to deal with VCs like a pro. First time founders are typically the most likely to object to dilution when fundraising. They do this to avoid dilution, which on the surface seems like a good idea, but can prove deadly to your start up when you get to the A round.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2024

Then along comes either money or contracts from strategic or financial investors or partners. The number of employees grows. The CEO insisted that between husband and wife, over half the stock always be in their hands, refusing new offerings or any other form of dilution, and controlling the majority of board seats in the process.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees. Office Space. Virtual Office. CEO 5 - 10.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

If you are a company that is fundraising, keep in mind that there are a few different levers you can pull to change the amount of dilution that the founders will experience. Let’s say you receive a term sheet for a $1 million investment at a $3 million fully diluted pre-money valuation, and you’re kind of disappointed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

20:05] Why wouldn’t you use a resource plan with your white label partners to some degree? [20:52] Sometimes you might be using white label or outsource partners. And so it requires you to have very good partners. If it's done intentionally, you apply enough margin to what those white label partners are charging.

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venturehacks.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Paul says, “Whenever you’re trading stock in your company for anything, whether it’s money or an employee or a deal with another company, the test for whether to do it is the same. Consider the opportunity cost of spending shares on employees and investors. We previously posted a table of market rates for employees.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

A partner from the law firm (sponsor, covers the drinks and food) tosses out some softball questions to the panelists, the audience chimes in with Q&A and finally, culminates with the meet and greet where the panelists are flooded with business cards and pitches on the next great thing, which is often very similar to the last great thing.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

and here is the usual early-stage trap… First, a brand-new enterprise is often formed from the efforts of several “partners”, each with an expertise valued by the others. An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares. Director level employees are typically granted ½%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. Email and customer feedback forms.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Your brand promise talks to your employees, investors, partners, and customers. Use your marketing strategy to ensure campaigns never dilute your brand perception. Channels serve as a more direct means of communication and include email, advertising, search engines, chatbots, phone, and more.” [via Proactively.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The reason is that employees are investors too—oftheir time—and they want just as much to be able to cash out. Ifyour competitors offer employees stock options that might make themrich, while you make it clear you plan to stay private, yourcompetitors will get the best people. They just want to invest in this startup.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Most partners, be they lawyers or VCs, tend to tweak the standard with their own language. This can be a convenient shortcut to separate someone’s status (founder) from their role (employee or contractor or advisor, etc.) An email would do. of the fully-diluted capitalization of the company. Which founder agreement?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Then along comes either money or contracts from strategic or financial investors or partners. The number of employees grows. Email readers continue here.] The operations of the corporation become more complex. Ownership is spread among several classes of investors. Bank loans with restrictive covenants are taken on.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here’s an example: First, a brand-new enterprise is often formed from the efforts of several “partners”, each with an expertise valued by the others. An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares. Each grant to new or existing employees must be approved by the board before issue.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. You can start by personally emailing them and saying thanks. I send DM’s, emails, all day thanking people.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. So we have to think of ourselves as partners. And then how would you prompt other entrepreneurial leaders to think more broadly about stakeholders than even just investors, employees, customers, which tends to be the typical trifecta? I always saw it as the opposite.”.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Reading on, the term sheet states, “The $8 million pre-money valuation includes an option pool equal to 20% of the post-financing fully diluted capitalization.&# As your lawyer explains that the so-called pre-money valuation always includes a large unallocated option pool for new employees, your stomach sinks.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. So we have to think of ourselves as partners. And then how would you prompt other entrepreneurial leaders to think more broadly about stakeholders than even just investors, employees, customers, which tends to be the typical trifecta? EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2010

Email readers continue here.] An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares. If there are 85,000 shares issued to the founders, then a plan calling for 15,000 shares in a pool reserved for future hires is appropriate, making the fully diluted shares 100,000.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 12, 2018

My own father had difficulties with partners in his business. We wouldn’t recommend having too many – three seems to be the ideal maximum – as you can get negative effects from too much dilution and by having too many cooks in the kitchen. Co-founder, or employee with an ESOP (Employee stock ownership Plan)?

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