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Don’t Let Your Best Product Managers All Become People Managers Or Your Company Will Suffer

Hunter Walker

Why Ken Norton’s Dual Product Management Career Path Can Also Encourage Innovation At Scale. Ken’s argument is that most tech companies treat product management careers in a very different way than they do engineering and design. And oh my does this concept speak to my own experiences as a BigCo product lead.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. ” Yet through all of these I meet teams that are just hard-wired to be a little bit more focused and insular than the rest of the field and it shows. For investors life is no different.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

Startup employees calculated that a) their hard work could change the odds and b) someday the stock options they were vesting might make them into millionaires. The stock trickled out over four years, as you would “vest” 1/48 th of the option each month. Essentially the company sells them the stock at zero cost, and they reverse vest.

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Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company?

Altgate

About three-quarters of this change in the value of dead equity is due to an increase in the percentage of dead equity; the rest is due to changes in company valuations. They fail to include vesting terms (i.e., It is more common that startups include vesting terms for their non-founding hires.

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Your 2015 guide to summer reading for startups

The Next Web

Suggested by: Brittany Berger , Content & PR Manager @ Mention. Suggested by: Brittany Berger , Content & PR Manager @ Mention. Suggested by: Brittany Berger , Content & PR Manager @ Mention. This book has been on my radar even since Buffer announced they were experimenting with having no managers.

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Franchise Your Business To More Customers

YoungUpstarts

This vested owner operator mentality gives the brand a dedication and commitment you only get from someone who has their own skin in the game. Franchisees, unlike W-2’d managers, watch Yelp reviews like a hawk and respond diligently to keep their customer base coming back for more.

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Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman

Let’s make the rest of the session a working session.” To honor the Alliance it had made with those former employees, Airbnb waived the usual vesting cliff so that they could exercise their stock options, and provided generous severance packages. That’s when I agreed to meet them. They came to Greylock’s offices on a Sunday to meet me.

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