The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. Musings of a VC in NYC. MBA Mondays Archives. Video. MORE >>

This holds true if you’re selling a product to a customer, selling equity in your company, or even selling a job to a potential hire. Use these three steps to get customers to look beyond price to see the value your company truly offers I always compete on value. will not compete on price. There are lots of ways to create value. MORE >>

Hire Locally. Hiring locally benefits your business, your city and your neighbors. Employees who live and work locally are more engaged, and their employers enjoy increased employee retention and reduced fringe costs. Location, location, location! Businesses then reap the benefits of being part of a thriving community. MORE >>

And perhaps Koichi feels the same way, making the strong case on his blog that " Startups Should Only Hire Good StarCraft Players.". That being said, as a self-described gamer, I'm pretty sympathetic to any argument made that playing MMOs makes you a better person. Sponsor. There'll be 2v2 and 4v4 brackets. Discuss. MORE >>

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Choose one. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) for H. MORE >>