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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

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This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Whatever approach you use, it should be the value of your company that you would sell or finance your business at right now. The second bracket is Director level managers and key people (engineering and design superstars for sure). startupcto

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

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We will grant him/her X% fully diluted shares up front, and every time he/she makes an introduction, he/she will vest in 100 shares.” People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. Recent Posts. Categories. Angel Investors.

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AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees

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It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more. In fact, Wilson Sonsini will close financings for startups using Docs for their seed rounds but you must become a client of the firms.

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New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

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He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value of over $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth over $600 million. The Lab manages the shared operational needs of its member organizations, allowing them to better focus on mission and execution.

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Debt, Equity and a Third (and Fourth) Thing that Might Work Better

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I was surprised by this, as I thought Seth was going to discuss another option I’ve seen used with great success: customer financing. Customer financing is not popular with startups because it’s hard. Why Don’t More Startups Do This?

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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It is gently laying the foundation for a subsequent financing, helping the CTO set sensible milestones to be achieved that can demonstrate execution skill and release cycle management. They might give them too much stock, and even have that stock not subject to vesting provisions. Camaraderie? Perhaps all of the above.

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How to pick a co-founder

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SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. but it’s manageable. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. This post is by Naval Ravikant.

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