Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

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. The operations superstar.

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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

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. The operations superstar.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Additionally, consider offering incentives such as bonuses or stock options to reward employee performance. You can also attend networking events and join professional organizations, giving you access to resources and knowledge that can help improve your career.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Indeed, it’ll take more than charisma, networking, and business savvy to win over top talent — you’ll need a budget to match, too. Stock options, restricted stock, or performance shares can make your offer more attractive to the right candidate. How to build your startup dream team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. Very early, you need generalists who can cover multiple areas, but you can’t pay for experience. Later you need specialists and managers. Later use LinkedIn and other job sources for professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# I talked about the need to have a restricted stock plan for your earliest employees. Angels have a much lower threshold for returns than do VCs. This is minutes 8-11. Tough, but true.

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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. The operations superstar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Founders stock and stock options are worth nothing for the first few years. Networking with investors will tell you what they are looking for in ideas and pitches, and get you introduced to the right people before you are desperately looking for money. Test your entrepreneur instincts through crowdfunding.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. Networking events are great starting points. Do you know any people in common?

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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. I don’t want to pretend that stock-option grants have zero impact on you as a shareholder. Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster!

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn’t replace anything. WhatsApp, recently acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock options , challenged traditional Silicon Valley logic. Early on, skeptics questioned, “What problem does it solve?”

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2023

Without any further ado, let’s take a look at some stock options that might bring a lot of ROI your way. Alphabet (GOOGL) The GOOGL stock needs no introduction. Visa (V) Visa is leading the world of digital transactions and operates the world’s largest electronic payment network.

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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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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile. It’s not simply a strong program in its own right, but also serves certain HQ functions for the entire Techstars network in 150+ countries and can thus provide access to top notch advisors from around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. Very early, you need generalists who can cover multiple areas, but you can’t pay for experience. Later you need specialists and managers. Later use LinkedIn and other job sources for professionals.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

It can be difficult to assess the intangible value of certain directors or advisors, and although a high profile individual is generally awarded a larger option package, the industry credibility and networking opportunities a director or advisor offers are not easily appraised.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. A Portrait Of Who Uses Social Networks In The US (And How Social Media Affects Our Lives) – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important? – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important?

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re investing your time, reputation, network, and probably also capital. Negotiate Your Equity And Salary With Stock Option Counsel Tips. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when. How to assign stock options in early-stage startups. Starting Work.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

You’re investing your time, reputation, network, and probably also capital. Negotiate Your Equity And Salary With Stock Option Counsel Tips. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when. How to assign stock options in early-stage startups. Starting Work.

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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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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The other reason I could decide so quickly is that I really know networks and marketplaces. Part of the reason that Blitzscaling opens with the Airbnb story is that it demonstrates how when you win a winner-take-most market with strong network effects, it can be not just industry-transforming, but world-transforming.

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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. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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. When I became a managing partner, aside from directing our strategy on where to invest, I also helped recruit board positions and management teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Being a CEO begets the network to be a CEO. There is a second set of career discussions I have even more frequently than my “angel yourself” advice but this type is almost never discussed publicly in blogs, which tend to emphasize only billion-dollar opportunities, 20-something technical founders and Silicon Valley elitism.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

How do your salary and stock option packages compare to the companies that you compete with for talent? The head of HR must be deeply networked in the industry and stay abreast of all the latest developments. Do managers and recruiters follow up with candidates in a timely fashion? Compensation. Training and Integration.

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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. Start networking. Skip the recruiting agents who hover in these networks – they don’t usually represent you well, and often antagonize the startups with aggressive selling.

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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

Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. Very early, you need generalists who can cover multiple areas, but you can’t pay for experience. Later you need specialists and managers. Later use LinkedIn and other job sources for professionals.

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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 Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

Let me get this straight: You''re two guys in a garage, you''re trying to raise a few hun­dred thousand dollars, your product is twelve months from completion, and you''re telling me that these well-known people are going to resign their $250,000-per-year, plus bonus, plus stock-option jobs to join your company?

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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. Start networking. Skip the recruiting agents who hover in these networks – they don’t usually represent you well, and often antagonize the startups with aggressive selling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. Very early, you need generalists who can cover multiple areas, but you can’t pay for experience. Later you need specialists and managers. Later use LinkedIn and other job sources for professionals.

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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

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. Very early, you need generalists who can cover multiple areas, but you can’t pay for experience. Later you need specialists and managers. Later use LinkedIn and other job sources for professionals.

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