Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

This post doesn’t going into general tactical approaches of job offer negotiation, but rather focuses on the fact that with startups a significant part of compensation is related to equity or options. On the equity side, each startup has a fixed option pool from which they’re drawing. Senior-level position. Early-Stage.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Foundation for New Employee Hires Formulate and socialize with the Board acceptable compensation bands (both salary and equity options) for new employees. Hire a firm to conduct a 409a valuation to set a strike price for your employee stock options, which nees to be at or above “fair market” value.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Second, unless the company is a truly break-out win that supports an entirely new venture firm coming in to buy an additional 20% in the Series B, (in this current market especially) Series B rounds are quite frequently done by insiders even when the startup is progressing.

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Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2014

As the VC seed market has institutionalized, especially over the past five years, there has emerged a prototypical seed round profile: $1M-$1.5M Find the original post here.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 18, 2014

Fairly often entrepreneurs will pitch investing in their seed-stage company, and it starts sounding great… interesting market… great team… notable early traction… until we arrive at the financials + fundraising slide and the projections state that this round of Seed financing is planned to be their last.

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