Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. Female Founder Office Hours gives founders the mentorship and the role models to see that it is in not only possible but also to have a plan to make it a reality.
Scott Edward Walker
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Question My co-founders and I are working on a cool new site, and we’ll be ready to launch in a few weeks. Vesting Restrictions. The first deadly mistake relates to vesting restrictions. Otherwise, if one of the founders quits after a few months, he would take all of his shares with him.
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techcrunch.com
JUNE 22, 2012
This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Chipotle’s founder, chef Steve Ells, originally wanted to launch a high-class, fine-dining restaurant. When he did the math and looked at the competition in his home city of San Francisco, he realized he didn’t have the funds to execute his idea. What has this brand done differently?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
A Strong Pool of Tech Founders – Stating the obvious. Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. And they have a vested interest in this success. Here are mine: 1.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 10, 2018
Over the past 20 years in San Francisco I went from negative net-worth grad student to Silicon Valley “Middle Class” (the 2%) to running a venture fund that, if we do our job, will ultimately put me in the 1% or better (in California the average annual household income of the 1% is an astounding $1.4m+).
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 24, 2014
The vast majority of my future savings was (a) not vested yet and (b) tied to hope for future stock grants I’d earn. It’s for reasons like these that I support getting startup founders some liquidity during their company’s first few years, perhaps as early as Series A financing when appropriate.
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