thinkspace.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Equity for Employees. Bookkeeper.
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 7, 2017
But employee option pool is important enough that I wanted to briefly expand upon my comment above. While you should expect these sorts of hires to take below market cash comp versus what Google is paying them, this tradeoff needs to be replaced with equity upside.
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Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
The investors and the entrepreneurs are – or should be – aware that the price of the company’s equity is set by the market – in simplest terms, what an informed buyer is willing to pay. Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Founders never really likedgiving up as much equity as VCs wanted. The short term forecast is more competition between investors, whichis good news for you. They dont take boardseats, so they dont need a big percentage of your company. Though that means youll get correspondingly less attention fromthem, its good news in other respects.
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