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Early Stage Advisor Equity Grants

Eric Friedman

I have been thinking about early stage equity and advisor grants for some time, including a post in 2016 , that I rely on and wanted to revisit. I have had a few founder friends reach out to me asking about how much equity to give to an advisor, and had some operators reach out asking how to become an advisor for an early stage founder.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Often companies will put you on their advisory board just to use your name and image (and not really want your advice). Advisory Board members may field weekly to monthly emails and calls from the company executive team to provide feedback on strategy and positioning and make introductions. They can vote to hire and fire the CEO.

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Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified angels and investment groups around the country. Register Internet and social media startup names.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly. 4) Manage deal flow.

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You name the price; I’ll name the terms.

Berkonomics

The most striking example was the one hundred million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. You name the price; I’ll name the terms. The post You name the price; I’ll name the terms. Here’s a striking example. It’s an easy rule to remember.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Not all start-up stock is created equally.

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