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The Introvert Economy, the Case for Longer Founder Vesting Cycles, What Happens When Your Product Goes Viral on TikTok, and More [link blog]

Hunter Walker

Founder Vesting [Jared Hecht/USV] – Jared joined USV earlier this year and it’ll be interesting to see how his writing changes as he adds ‘institutional VC’ to his founder and angel investor knowledge.

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Rethinking Founder Vesting

K9 Ventures

One of these norms is how founder vesting and employee vesting works. I won’t get into employee vesting today as that has much more to consider than I have time to cover in this short post today. Here is a good summary post from Cooley GO on Founder Vesting. The first is fairly obvious.

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8 Keys To Maximizing Your New Venture Stock Net Worth

Startup Professionals Musings

Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over four years, starting with the first 25 percent of shares vesting only after an owner has remained active for at least 12 months (one year cliff ). Key founder vesting should have no cliff. Retain the right to reclaim stock from anyone leaving the startup.

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First Round Funding Terms and Founder Vesting

Both Sides of the Table

The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC“ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents.

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How To Prevent Your Founder’s Shares From Vaporizing

Startup Professionals Musings

Typically, vesting in startups occurs monthly over four years, starting with the first 25 percent of shares vesting only after an owner has remained active for at least 12 months (one year cliff ). Key founder vesting should have no cliff. Retain the right to reclaim stock from anyone leaving the startup.

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4 Deadly Legal Mistakes That Startups Make

Scott Edward Walker

You also need to remember to file your 83(b) election with the Internal Revenue Service within 30 days after the grant/purchase date of the restricted shares (see tip #3 of my post “ Founder Vesting: Five Tips for Entrepreneurs ”). IP Ownership.

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What do investors consider the most important aspect of a potential deal?

Gust

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] *.