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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." I'll get to service providers in a later post. Which means n = (i - 1)/i.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Eliminate Stress And Reboot For Change In 2021

YoungUpstarts

by Joel Patterson , the founder of The Vested Group and author of “ The Big Commitment: Solving The Mysteries Of Your ERP Implementation “ As a challenging year winds down, companies are sifting through what worked and what didn’t as they prepare to reboot for 2021 after dealing with the many difficulties brought on by the pandemic.

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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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Ways for Startups to Limit Liability in Company Car Crashes

The Startup Magazine

Hire Qualified Drivers Just as hiring skilled and productive employees is vital for a startup, bringing on board qualified drivers with clean driving records and appropriate licenses reduces road risks substantially. Diligent management of this influential yet controllable human factor promises a major return on investment.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program

VC Adventure

Despite how much time companies talk about the importance of their employees and, in many cases, how every employee is also an “owner” of their business through their option program, most companies are pretty ad hoc (or down right sloppy) about how they plan for and execute their option program.

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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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