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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

If you’re thinking about extending equity to an employee or a vendor (as in the example above), you should know that the topic is multi-faceted. If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Finding great employees first. What is equity compensation?

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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

www.avc.com

Employee Equity: How Much? The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. Once you have assembled a core team that is operating the business, you need to move from art to science in terms of granting employee equity.

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How to Become a Fractional CMO

Duct Tape Marketing

Fractional CMOs typically bring their wealth of experience to guide marketing efforts, helping companies refine their brand messaging, identify ideal clients, improve client retention and more. The key to successfully managing this type of schedule? Effective project management skills are key in managing a flexible schedule.

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Don’t Let Your Best Product Managers All Become People Managers Or Your Company Will Suffer

Hunter Walker

Why Ken Norton’s Dual Product Management Career Path Can Also Encourage Innovation At Scale. Ken’s argument is that most tech companies treat product management careers in a very different way than they do engineering and design. And oh my does this concept speak to my own experiences as a BigCo product lead. Thanks Ken!

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6 Best Practices to Set Up an ESOP for Your Business

Up and Running

Employee retention, for both startups and established businesses, is more important than ever. More and more employees are leaving roles to join companies that offer greater flexibility, increased benefits, higher pay, or even a more mission-driven culture. Federal income tax-free earnings until employees take distributions.

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A Different Approach to Refreshing Stock Option Grants

Feld Thoughts

For many management teams, especially in rapidly growing, or mature companies, it’s an important part of their existence as culturally we’ve oriented compensation, bonuses, and future compensation around an annual cycle. I embrace this – my goal is to help these entrepreneurs and management teams win.

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What is an employee retention or M&A carveout plan?

Startup Company Lawyer

In response to the problem of worthless common stock, some companies have implemented employee retention plans, which are also referred to as M&A carveout plans. Below are some common structures for employee retention plans and issues related to each alternative. Straight Retention Plans. Participation.