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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program

VC Adventure

It’s perhaps a boring topic – Options and your company’s option program – but an important one. My hope with this post is to push your thinking around options and encourage you to formalize what you’re doing into an actual option program. Why have an option program to begin with?

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Ways for Startups to Limit Liability in Company Car Crashes

The Startup Magazine

This policy works to improve fleet management while holding employees accountable for their actions when driving the organization’s vehicles. Diligent management of this influential yet controllable human factor promises a major return on investment.

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Better Solutions for Better Operational Efficiency in Construction

The Startup Magazine

A constant flow of communication and information is useful for all levels of the construction business, architects, engineers, contractors, managers, construction workers, cleaners, etc. Productivity management and tracking. Adopting mobile technology is the future of construction work management and efficiency.

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Why Your Business’s Purpose Should Be More Than Making Money

Up and Running

We have gotten used to treating one another as a means to our vested interests, thereby plaguing the very essential humanitarian value of mutual ethics, respect, love, and compassion. Companies can create many types of programs to give their employees a shared sense of purpose and the fulfillment that comes from doing good.

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Best and Worst Practices (Plus FAQs) for Layoffs

OnlyOnce

Other thoughts that came up were: (a) offering a long post-termination exercise period for vested options, (b) accelerating some vesting, (c) creating a Salary Bridge program, which we did once at Return Path. Q: Do voluntary termination programs work? In situations like this, it’s also a good idea to share metrics.

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Unique Careers: Jenn Labin on hiring entrepreneurs at heart

Transformify

Jenn is the author of Mentoring Programs That Work, a unique approach to building scalable and sustainable mentoring programs. It was a big step as I was used to being a ‘’girl boss’’, managing my own business and having more flexibility as I am also a mother. Sense of Community. Sponsorship.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

.” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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