SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate. Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations Seed Stage Compensation What are typical compensation numbers?

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

One of the key functions of a board is to hire and fire the CEO. There are, of course, some items that the board has specific decision making authority over (buying another company, increasing the option pool, signing leases of a certain size, etc.). Most decisions are delegated to the CEO and management team.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Startup employees are granted common shares out of something called an option pool. In a CTO Salary and Equity trends report by Safire Partners, it finds non-founder equity compensation to settle out below 2 percent.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is an instance of a very important meta-trend, one that YCombinator itself has been based on from the beginning: foundersare becoming increasingly powerful relative to investors. Even the cheap kinds of startups will generally raise large amountsat some point, when they want to hire a lot of people.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. You dont have to spend time on bureaucraticstuff, because you havent hired any bureaucrats yet.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To quantify consumer trends and market opportunities, useful tools for “top down” assessments include IBIS World and eMarketer. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Earnest Research * mines proprietary data sets (e.g., Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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