Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2017

Today’s entrepreneurs have easier access to information, whether it be data via Google, networking through platforms such as LinkedIn, or virtual collaboration. All of this allows today’s tech entrepreneurs to make more informed decisions due to the access they have to that network, all at the touch of their fingertips.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The founder’s title and role dilemma. Later you need specialists and managers. The founder succession dilemma.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner. He was a senior partner, I was a peon.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. I knew my partners for 8 years before joining GRP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

When I lived in Silicon Valley where “everyone” was an entrepreneur, I noticed that smart couples followed the strategy that both partners would never be in startups at the same time. Founders stock and stock options are worth nothing for the first few years. Adopt the Silicon Valley entrepreneur family model.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If I’m going to find out that a set of founders lack integrity, don’t behave like partners, take on unacceptable risks that might harm their customers or society, or simply aren’t the kinds of people I want to spend a decade with, I want to know those facts before I start down the path of evaluating that investment. I think David’s wrong.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The founder’s title and role dilemma. Later you need specialists and managers. The founder succession dilemma.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Two-f **g-billion!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It doesn’t have to be at a formal networking event. Allow time for people to network (half an hour usually works) and then welcome everyone and do your pitch. Stock Option. Everyone can contribute something, whether it be sales advice, desk space, or an introduction to their network. You can do this anywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Yet you should offer a reasonable monthly fee and/or some stock options to show you are serious about the position. It’s a great networking opportunity to expand your connections to include all their connections as well. That will inevitably spread through networking across the business community.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

When I became a managing partner, aside from directing our strategy on where to invest, I also helped recruit board positions and management teams. So it’s more about a broad network. Early in my climb I was hyper-focused on title and pay, realizing later that good health was like a stock option that pays off later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2012

Stock options, if you get them, won’t help you pay the mortgage for a least a couple of years, and the value then is totally unpredictable. One family partner works for a startup, and the other sticks with a large enterprise company like Intel, HP, Apple, IBM, or Fujitsu. Start networking. Join local organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2013

Yet you should offer a small monthly fee and/or some stock options to show you are serious about the position. It’s a great networking opportunity to expand your connections to include all their connections as well. That will inevitably spread through networking across the business community. Formalize the compensation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The Founder’s title and role dilemma. Later you need specialists and managers. The Founder succession dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2011

Stock options, if you get them, won’t help you pay the mortgage for a least a couple of years, and the value then is totally unpredictable. One family partner works for a startup, and the other sticks with a large enterprise company like Intel, HP, Apple, IBM, or Fujitsu. Start networking. Join local organizations.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

There are so many Facebook/Google/Apple multi-millionaires who receive new stock options every quarter, often a few hundred thousand dollars every quarter, that feel they should put something back into the system, plus they like the idea of being an investor. Option Two: Post-Launch?—?Raise They’re betting on you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2012

Yet you should offer a small monthly fee and/or some stock options to show you are serious about the position. It’s a great networking opportunity to expand your connections to include all their connections as well. That will inevitably spread through networking across the business community. Formalize the compensation.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Yet you should offer a reasonable monthly fee and/or some stock options to show you are serious about the position. It’s a great networking opportunity to expand your connections to include all their connections as well. That will inevitably spread through networking across the business community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The founder’s title and role dilemma. Later you need specialists and managers. The founder succession dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The Founder’s title and role dilemma. Later you need specialists and managers. The Founder succession dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Yet you should offer a small monthly fee and/or some stock options to show you are serious about the position. It’s a great networking opportunity to expand your connections to include all their connections as well. That will inevitably spread through networking across the business community. Formalize the compensation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. Stock options are the icing on the cake. Don’t join for the options.&#. Simple math would have solved that but people rarely do the calculations or think about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Or maybe it’s not a good friend but you’re a business guy and hooked up with a technical guy you know through the network and you think you’ll work well together or vice-versa. . I believe that you should have a “partner&# or 2 in the company. I believe you should treat them as partners.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What They Do: Deeply discounted coupons (often 50% off redeemed value) for local merchants.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In other cases, they may come from your channel partners or elsewhere. The strength of their network is something you’ll want to confirm ahead of signing them on. As for compensation, stock options in the range of 0.1% Perhaps they have previous leadership experience at these companies or are still there today.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

But here it’s not enough to relay on secondary research – get out there and speak to potential customers, partners and even competitors – gather evidence and interest. Evidence the plan will work – for example, there’s a similar startup in another country that’s working well.

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Small Business Force

JULY 26, 2013

Should cash flow get tight, as it invariably will, employee-owners will be far more willing to ease the burden by either temporarily deferring or even taking a temporary cut, to help the company.But more important, to you, as the entrepreneur/owner, you have "partners" who are in the game with you. This provides incentive for people to stay.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

My partner Rob also wondered if Facebook is the next Yahoo! , How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. or the next Google. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

It was a six month journey for me and my partner Dave Jilk which was at some points exciting, often stressful, and occasionally extremely confusing. When we installed a network for a client, we used a company called Allcom (run by two brothers – Jim Galvin and Mike Galvin.) It started, like many things, completely randomly.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

Your Network. It might take some digging, but I’d bet you can work your way to accredited investors through your own network easier than you might think. I was lucky enough to have Y Combinator, the partners, and my batchmates walk me through a lot of this. There are entire posts dedicated to raising money on AngelList.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. Cheers, Brian.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Trust me, once you’ve launched and achieved traction, you’ll have your pick of mentors, VCs, partners and all the legal expenses you need. No phone system. No legal muck.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 1, 2013

If you can, though, find a way to make them owners, as early as possible through stock options or a bonus plan tied to company results. With Suppliers � Treat them as partners They are entrepreneurs just as much as you are. So, build your relationship with them, from the get-go, as partners. He's been there.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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