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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Employee Benefits. SALES & MARKETING. 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 The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Newsletters.

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Cap Table Clean Up

ithacaVC

They are typically pretty simple: (i) shares owned by founders and (ii) shares authorized for issuance in a stock option pool, some of which may be issued to employees already and some of which will be available for future issuance. And don’t forget that the options granted would come out of the available option pool.

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What to expect before accepting the offer to become Engineer #1 at a startup

The Next Web

From the perspective of my outside friends, why are employees that so clearly impact the growth trajectory of a company look like they’re getting screwed? Startup employees are granted common shares out of something called an option pool. These common shares are granted to founders from the beginning, not employees.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM. Let’s start at the end.   So, let’s assume here we have an 8% non-cumulative dividend.

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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

Startup Equity For Employees. 3 Dilution. 5 Stock vs Options. NOTE: If youre an attorney or tax accountant with experience helping startup employees with stock and option issues, drop me a note. Companies raise money by selling new stock after the board of directors authorizes the sale to investors.

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Founders versus early employees

www.startupnorth.ca

Home Events Contact Jobs StartupIndex Founders versus early employees by David Crow on September 10th, 2009 in Resources Not everyone can be a founder. But for every founder, there is an early employee that takes near equal risks in joining an early-stage company. David Beisel We need to celebrate the employees at startups.

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Dear elizy: How should I split equity with my co-founders?  And how will that affect raising a seed round?

Hippoland

But, Ada wants to split the equity 50% her, 20% Bob and 20% me with a 10% option pool. To have so much stock locked up that could be allocated to serious contributors including future employees / co-founders is a bad sign. We are trying to decide how much equity to allocate to each person.