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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H. Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. Leadership.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

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SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Don’t lose this game. share to $1.00/share:

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

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.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

It is several thousand dollars, which is a lot of cash for a struggling entrepreneur in search of seed funding. At a $1 million, pre-money, with an investment of $500K, that would leave 67% of the company for the founders and initial option pool. I spend my days working with cool start-ups in a variety of capacities.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1

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Advisors can help you think through business challenges, make key introductions and/or offer personal/management advice. The Option Pool Shuffle. Advisory boards are a good way for startup companies to get a broader network of people engaged in the business. They also help build credibility for your startup. Part 2: Deck.

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Founders versus early employees

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Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 Table 1: Options Grants in Silicon Valley for Series A from VentureHacks The numbers from VentureHacks are guidelines. They are rough estimates.Any one have sample option grants in Canada? Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Indicee Jumptive Five Mobile Inc.