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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

SoCal CTO

I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup. Founders vs. Early Employees To help with this discussion, let me start with a definition of "early employee." Same Value for Sweat Equity as Investment Dollars?

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CMO CTO COO Equity and Compensation

SoCal CTO

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate. Seed Stage Compensation What are typical compensation numbers? Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations

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Beware of Premature Merge Elation

Both Sides of the Table

I can save tons of development time and I think I can buy it for all equity. The only thing worse than your early-stage company buying another early stage company is you trying to pull off a merger of equals. If they’re early stage like you, they’re likely just dogs.

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Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees

www.instigatorblog.com

Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees Tweet Recently someone asked me for advice on how much equity they should give to their early employees. His company had just closed an early round of funding and he wanted to cement the employee relationships. Those first employees will take 0.5-1%

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What is it Like to Negotiate a VC Round?

Both Sides of the Table

” Today I want to talk about how a VC thinks about equity pricing on your round and particularly if you’re coming off of a convertible note. In the old days there usually weren’t convertible notes on early-stage deals and there weren’t party rounds with 20 angels or 6 seed funds. It’s very simple.

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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

Startup Equity For Employees. 5 Stock vs Options. 7 Salary vs Equity. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. From Payne.org Wiki. 2 Stock Classes: Common and Preferred.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part IV "Negotiating the Startup Offer"

Genuine VC

This post doesn’t going into general tactical approaches of job offer negotiation, but rather focuses on the fact that with startups a significant part of compensation is related to equity or options. So optimizing a startup offer involves not just one key figure – salary – but also the option package.

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