Hiring Management Operations Option Pool 
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 3, 2010
It meant that the management teams hadn’t figured out a product / market fit for their own businesses. But to be clear the overwhelming majority of deals involve one company driving the cultural integration, establishment of uniform processes, hiring / firing decisions, etc. They often involve big hugs on stage.
VC Adventure
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Some prefer to start with the team in the room for the operational review and reserve the end of the board meeting for board business. The former is nice because you won’t be rushing to approve minutes, option grants, lease approvals or whatever else it is that you need done as “official business.”
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
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Seeing Both Sides
JULY 15, 2009
Year in, year out, Thus, VCs and entrepreneurs are not operating on an equal playing field when it comes to negotiating financings and interpreting the impact of the terms involved. The investors who provided the $4 million own 40% of the company and the management team owns 60%. We put forward a “6 on 7” deal with a 20% option pool.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
VCs are much morelikely to make angel-sized investments than they were a year ago.And meanwhile the past year has seen a dramatic increase in a newtype of investor: the super-angel, who operates like an angel, butusing other peoples money, like a VC. 13 ]Im not saying option pools themselves will go away.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. Apparently our situation was not unusual.
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