Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2015

When an entrepreneur first incorporates his or her business, he or she may find him or herself the proud owner of 10 million shares of common stock, commonly called founder’s shares. every entrepreneur should incorporate early and file an 83(b) election with the IRS within 30 days of founding the company. In the U.S.,

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Gust

AUGUST 30, 2012

Characteristics of the Entrepreneur. Valuation, Size of Raise, Amount of Investment, Form of Investment, Liquidation Waterfall, Option Pool, Board Composition, Anti-Dilution Rights, Protective Provisions, Founder Vesting, *original post can be found on Quora @ : [link] *. Characteristics of the Venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2013

Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over 4 years, starting with the first 25% of such shares vesting only after the employee has remained with the company for at least 12 months (one year “cliff”). Vesting always stops when an employee leaves the company. Vesting with no cliff. Stock dilution control.

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Gust

MARCH 16, 2014

Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over 4 years, starting with the first 25% of such shares vesting only after the employee has remained with the company for at least 12 months (one year “cliff”). Vesting always stops when an employee leaves the company. Vesting with no cliff. Stock dilution control.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In our case we set out to be founder friendly and wrote a termsheet that has the minimal set of investor protections that we can get away with as an institutional investor – we need some protections because we have a duty of care to the people who invest in our fund. Forward Partners Venture Capital'

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. Many had the typical investor-friendly terms where entrepreneurs would get screwed and not even understand how they got screwed until many years later. I do believe in protecting the founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over 4 years, starting with the first 25% of such shares vesting only after the employee has remained with the company for at least 12 months (one year “cliff”). Vesting always stops when an employee leaves the company. Vesting starts now. Acceleration clause.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In our case we set out to be founder friendly and wrote a termsheet that has the minimal set of investor protections that we can get away with as an institutional investor – we need some protections because we have a duty of care to the people who invest in our fund. Forward Partners Venture Capital'

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 2, 2012

At this point, entrepreneurs know who they’re going to be working with and along what structure, but the deal isn’t done yet… including wiring of the funds! Founder vesting is the most common example. The job of the entrepreneur is to ensure those circumstances don’t change too much in the interim.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

As a founder I fought with VC’s over vesting as they brought in a new CEO and walked me out the door. As a board member I negotiated with founding CEO’s over vesting when I thought it was their time to go. I’ll offer that both entrepreneurs and VC’s have the wrong model for founding CEO equity compensation.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. When I hear entrepreneurs say that they’re kicking around ideas with friends I ask, “have you legally registered a company?&# The world is much safer for non-founders.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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venturehacks.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneurs should think about unbundling money and value add. They don’t even try to get market price for their investment; they limit their holdings to leave the founders enough stock to feel the company is still theirs.” Ask the Attorney” – Founder Vesting. How to pick a co-founder. Popular Posts.

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