Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 4, 2017

Employee taxes. Hiring the right employees. This is why it’s important to find employees with potential. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee. Approach them as you would an investor—what can this possibly over-qualified potential employee gain from joining your team? Social media. Travel expenses.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. In order for stock options to work, your employees must first have a vision of what stock options can do for them. Turns out, not so easy. Digg this!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process. Liquidity can help attract new employees and keep current ones happy. If you have been giving stock options, employees will want you to be a public company, to exercise their rights to buy the stock and sell it at a profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although the media has been full of inspiring stories about start-ups in Silicon Valley, the reality is that the rate at which Americans have been starting companies has been in decline for a long time. If your vision is powerful enough, you can make up for this by offering recruits stock options.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 For the time being, you’ll spend 40–50% less on renting a home or office and 20–30% less on employee salaries, while not giving up that much in terms of the startup ecosystem. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn’t be about the money.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

this requires a strong knowledge of market data, employee performance, company performance relative to market and available resources?—?cash cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price? I call these “filibuster” boards. I’ve seen both quite a bit.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

He or she has worked at some very successful big technology or media companies and went to a great school. The narrative of this discussion is something like this: I meet a 35-40-year-old founder with two kids and mortgage. million property buys you what you imagined $250,000 would have.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I have spent a great deal of time studying the fundamentals of stocks, option trades, goal-setting, and public speaking. But also I am excited to bring out my book and work with small businesses to focus on engaging more succesfully with their employees. All my studying and hard work has resulted in a breakthrough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. These options were granted shortly after MySpace, Inc. of MySpace, Inc.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

He is currently CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. Don’t let the idea of relocating employees scare you. You’re looking for long-tenured employees that are always committed to their jobs. Make the benefits of startups and stock options very clear.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

Social Media makes group-games viral. You also need to answer this question on behalf of your future employees. But why will the 50th employee join ? Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then. There has to be a bigger reason.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

This week, we hear from Alex Blumberg from Gimlet Media and the Startup Podcast in our new Bcast Bytes segment. Here’s our first one with Sabrina Parsons and Alex Blumberg (13 minutes): Listen to Episode 5: Show notes: Alex Blumberg Talks About His Life as Founder of Gimlet Media (feat. Learn more about Gimlet Media.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2011

Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media just gave a really valuable talk at the International Startup Festival in Montreal titled "Investing in Your Influencers." These are people with whom you can share some type of value, but not tangible value like stock options or payment.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

I knew I wanted to work in media, so that I could create stories that would connect people and capture their imaginations, about a world beyond their borders, whether it was a hut or a city or a country (if they were fortunate enough to travel). The hidden cost of this (and employee burnout) is one that any investor is all too familiar with.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

I knew I wanted to work in media, so that I could create stories that would connect people and capture their imaginations, about a world beyond their borders, whether it was a hut or a city or a country (if they were fortunate enough to travel). The hidden cost of this (and employee burnout) is one that any investor is all too familiar with.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook admits as much that the ad business, which again accounts for the vast majority of revenues (85%), has seasonality in line with the media industry generally with a strong Q4 and weak Q1. In fact Facebook’s ad revenue dropped in absolute terms slightly (about -3%) from Q4 2010 to Q1 2011. billion in cash profit last year.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example (all direct quotes): the CEO was gaining prominence in the entrepreneurial community and the media. A CEO, more so than any other employee, needs to live the company’s culture. Don’t create a scenario where your employees can’t respect you because of poor personal choices.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. John Greathouse. Got it now. 4 Comments. No Comments.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 1, 2013

With social media, word of mouth will spread. With Employees � "Walk the talk" This starts with your first employee. It's one thing to operate in a particular way with customers, but you need to operate the same way with employees. Don't treat customers like royalty and employees like serfs. Always a "win, win."

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. link] Recommended Links for September 27th | Alex Gamela – Digital Media & Journalism [.]

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