Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Startup Equity and Stock Options: What’s It Worth to You? A Counterintuitive System for Startup Compensation – crowdspring.co/1zRImmt. 10 Ways to Make Your Relationship With Your Co-Founder A Success – crowdspring.co/1sSi21Y. – crowdspring.co/1sSpg62.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. I’ve already made clear that I think raising equity from “strategic money&# is an oxymoron. Common Mistakes.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Funding Announcement Figure out your PR strategy for announcing the round to get your plan in order. Foundation for New Employee Hires Formulate and socialize with the Board acceptable compensation bands (both salary and equity options) for new employees.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2012

From Silicon Valley to Peoria, Illinois, cash-strapped startups look for inventive way to finance their business – often handing out equity to employees, consultants, vendors, and other service providers. Pitfalls in sharing equity. While equity can be a great tool for compensating early on, the drawbacks are significant.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As for compensation, stock options in the range of 0.1% in company equity is normal at this stage, with the higher end of the range reserved for leaders of industry who bring more to the table than connections. You might consider starting with an offer to invest at a low valuation before discussing sweat equity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

After that, I did it for a private equity firm then we became a part of a larger corporation. How do you split equity? You may call it employee number one with a really low salary and really generous stock options and as the company grows, you’ll fix their salary. You know that I ran WinZip before.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. link] kevin risky is necessary sometime, maybe.

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