Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Your sales team is pounding the table because engineering won’t ship new features fast enough. Engineering is pissed off because they need to do some technical infrastructure improvements and the sales team is always pushing them to deliver too many features. &# Sell what we have!! And yet you still have scarce resources.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 27, 2019

It’s a common issue – you have an idea that will require some technical know-how (eg coding, engineering, science) but don’t have those skills yourself. So why should a well paid developer, engineer or maker give it up and come and work on your startup? NZ Sales Manager. Getting the right fit. NZ Entrepreneur.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 64

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Equity Stock Options Advisory Board Stock 237

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers. When the value of the studio’s participation is effectively a commodity (like office space, engineering, capital, etc), the equation flips and should be to the advantage of the founders.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

When we did, I asked him about his head of HR, and heard all about what great medical and insurance benefits, stock vesting, automated expense account forms, movie night, company picnics, etc., Since Tom was an engineer I explained the “Organizational Debt” metaphor. the company had. Next write your new hire job description.

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Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I was having trouble managing remote teams and keeping track of their billable hours after working with them for a long, therefore Hubstaff was born.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It involves creating 3D models that can be shared among project stakeholders, including architects, engineers, and builders. In addition, digital technologies can help improve safety on construction sites, reduce waste, and enhance project management.

Green 127

Green Demand Vesting Differentiation 127

The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

Always have a vesting schedule. Being good at engineering has nothing to do with being good at product management. (You can choose not to be profitable, but it must be your choice, not something forced on you by the market). Split the stock between the founding team evenly. Make it clear from day one.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This is true of every discipline whether it be product, engineering, sales and so on. I was trying to recruit a product manager from Google to transfer over but he told me he’d actually already decided to leave the company to found a startup. Just as soon as they tell their current manager. I did and he was! Sell Past The Close.

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Hiring Vesting Salary Naming 147

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. 5+ years Experience Engineer 0.33 - 0.66. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. How long should people vest – four years? Investors routinely subject founder shares to vesting, but there is no rule that says that founders cannot, or should not, impose vesting on themselves.

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Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

They staffed the team with several veteran engineers and augmented it with talented new hires that had expertise in areas outside of Stryker medical’s core competencies including aptitudes useful in developing key new technologies for advanced patient surfaces and mattresses. The fatal flaw was in their technical assumptions.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Differentiation Leadership 80

www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team. And the fourth bracket are employees who are not in key functions.

Equity 64

Equity Employee CTO Hire Fractional CTO 64

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2022

In these moments there tends to be a lot of content to help CEOs and founders manage through a downturn, but not as much for those team members impacted. For example, I was sort of a non-engineer jack of all trades when I worked at Linden Lab (makers of virtual world, err metaverse, Second Life).

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Stock Options Vesting Stock Valuation 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2017

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Stock Stock Options Advisory Board Startup 140

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

For example: If an advisor meets with the founding team monthly, is involved in recruiting talent for the business, and takes a few customer calls, then that advisor would be entitled to 1 percent of the company in the form of restricted stock or options, vesting over a two-year time frame. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide.

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Equity San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 224

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

Dark, dirty and dangerous — mention the 3Ds of old-time manufacturing and HR managers shudder. As a manufacturing engineer, Bianco takes design specifications, puts them into work instructions and then works to ensure that satellite hardware is built correctly. The largest generation in the U.S. By Steve Minter, Industry Week .

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United States Baltimore Engineer Software 29

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It is gently laying the foundation for a subsequent financing, helping the CTO set sensible milestones to be achieved that can demonstrate execution skill and release cycle management. They might give them too much stock, and even have that stock not subject to vesting provisions. Camaraderie? Perhaps all of the above. Camaraderie?

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more. Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 230

www.instigatorblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is especially true when you think of a tech startup, where the first few hires are typically engineers/programmers. To make round numbers let's say you have 100,000 share outstanding and you give your lead engineer 1000. link] VC part 3: Engineers deserve more equity — Some French Guy [.] 1% is just not a lot.

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Equity Employee Startup Vesting 41

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Are the logistics manageable? I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Don’t be the plaid guy.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Equity Advisory Board Stock Options Stock 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 120

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One one level, the design mindset is similar to the engineering mindset, in that it seeks to frame and understand a problem, and then solve that problem. Once the initial crisis management was complete, the question Airbnb asked itself was, “How do we adapt to this new world?”

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Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Women will be challenging for equal pay for jobs in middle to senior management levels. But, just because a job requires a high-vis vest, it certainly does not mean that it should be a prerequisite that the employees in such a role all be male. But the gender pay gap is far from the only issue that women face when looking for work.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. At Viaweb we managed to raise $2.5

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Thus, they typically take a vested interested in ensuring whatever they build will be able to evolve with the company. Most of the technically inclined engineers who would have the itch to work at a start for equity are already working on their own idea. #3 Without the cash, you’re very close to being DOA.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Equity Vesting 40

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2019

Yes, even if the warehouse space is big it can be poorly used and easily go through this kind of a situation unless you take management and logistics seriously. Image by Peter H from Pixabay. The ideal solution is to maximise the use of vertical space with the help of pallets; in other words, go upwards and not outwards.

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Vertical Vesting Design Sales 86

The Next Web

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Google not only has the best search engine, but also it has the most effective online advertising products (in my opinion, at least). Andrew Vest , Preferling. . Google has managed to remain nimble and operate like a startup despite becoming so large. Google has done a great job of satisfying both user groups. Advertising.

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Advertising Vesting Search Lead Generation 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

When I was a manager, I was once leading a cycle post-mortem. If your marketing team actually uses data to make decisions, your engineering team will be impressed. Richard Ackoff proposed a "Decision Record" model where managers write down their expectations for the outcomes from a strategy or course of action and their reasons why.

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Employee San Francisco Lean Software Review 146

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Go vest yourself. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

By the way, you will normally only be offered “options,” which vest over a 4-year period after a 1-year “cliff.” CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Stock Stock Options Advisory Board Startup 144

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP.

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78