Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. Unless you have a sizable nest egg, or a working spouse with an income to support you, I would recommend that you consider any stock options as a “bonus,” rather than a key part of your compensation for joining a startup. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Interestingly, one of the first things that you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good Quality Assurance organization cannot build a high quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. Do managers and recruiters follow up with candidates in a timely fashion? Compensation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

than to have to deal with healthcare benefit options, vacation policies, health-and-safety regulations and so forth. Stock option top-ups after a few years are vital retention mechanisms. I promise you if there was no glue between sales, marketing, product and engineering we would have had greatly limited our growth curve.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

For instance, Steve Jobs had no engineering skill, but he had clear design ideas and knew how to build a great brand. If your vision is powerful enough, you can make up for this by offering recruits stock options. You cannot be a hero for all seasons, you need others to reduce the load off your shoulders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. Unless you have a sizable nest egg, or a working spouse with an income to support you, I would recommend that you consider any stock options as a “bonus,” rather than a key part of your compensation for joining a startup. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2024

Compensation’s charter is to approve stock option grants for any employee, no matter how small the grant, and all salary and benefits for at least the CEO if not the next level down, to avoid conflict of interest with the CEO. I engineered the extraction of the outside investors, even at a near total loss.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

the loan converts at 15-20% discout to the new money coming in) or your investor will get “warrant coverage&# which is similar to an employee stock option in that it gives the investor the right but not the obligation to invest in your company in the future at a defined priced.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2 Stock Classes: Common and Preferred. 5 Stock vs Options. 6 Founders / Restricted Stock. 7 Salary vs Equity. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers.

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www.startupnorth.ca

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 Table 1: Options Grants in Silicon Valley for Series A from VentureHacks The numbers from VentureHacks are guidelines. They are rough estimates.Any one have sample option grants in Canada?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Now that I’ve mapped out key first steps that need to be taken and important cultural nuances to be aware of when expanding your business into Asia , many CEOs ask me if they can actually locate their engineering and product teams here and expect the same level of quality they get in the Valley. My simple answer is: absolutely.

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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. The salary offered (and accepted) was quite low. You’d have to look at your stock options contract. After all, you have to build a business and generate your own salary. Title Range (%).

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Transformify

DECEMBER 6, 2021

What makes Transformify powerful is its Applicant Tracking System (ATS), which uses an AI-powered engine. Transformify workforce management system also helps manage all working arrangements, from salaried employees to freelancers and consultants. It supports data-driven decisions and helps predict the success rate of every applicant.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Compensation’s charter is to approve stock option grants for any employee, no matter how small the grant, and all salary and benefits for at least the CEO if not the next level down, to avoid conflict of interest with the CEO. I engineered the extraction of the outside investors, even at a near total loss.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

In other words, if I’m thinking about this just from a WP Engine perspective for a second as a potential customer, when you come up to me and say, “Meetings are awful because half of them don’t even have an agenda, and the ones that do, you don’t stick to it and they go long. Jason: Yeah. I already write agendas.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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joel.is

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Within the Buffer team we have complete compensation transparency and every team member knows each others’ salary and equity stake through stock options. If you’re in our Happiness team you still see all the emails going on in the engineering and product team. engineers@ - includes all our engineering team.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

If an employee with a title of Junior Engineer believes that she is a far better programmer than her counterpart with the title Senior Architect, this will indicate to her that she may be under paid and undervalued. Andreessen argues that people ask for many things from a company: salary, bonus, stock options, span of control, and titles.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Ifyour competitors offer employees stock options that might make themrich, while you make it clear you plan to stay private, yourcompetitors will get the best people. They pay him the smallest salary he canlive on, plus 3% of the company in restricted stock, vesting overfour years. (So

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