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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees.

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6 New Venture Ending Alternatives You May Contemplate

Startup Professionals Musings

Equity is stock, but private company stock has no market value until the company goes public or is sold or merged with another company. Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points.

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6 Strategies For Startup Exit That Investors Accept

Startup Professionals Musings

Equity is stock, but private company stock has no market value until the company goes public or is sold or merged with another company. Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points.

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10 Strategies To Avoid Bad Risks In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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How to split startup equity between startup founders when starting a new business

The Startup Magazine

How you split founder startup equity can be even harder for a tech startup due to different roles and contributions from the founders. We’ll address the fundamental considerations to consider when distributing stock in a business, including the method of dividing equity among founders and typical traps to avoid, in this post.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’. Global Demand.

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How To Reevaluate Your Business Expenses

The Startup Magazine

The Washington Post advises us that over a hundred thousand small businesses have shuttered due to the pandemic’s impact on the economy. That’s why businesses need to take stock of their business expenses and seek to shave off the unnecessary ones. Dealing with technical debt is as important as dealing with financial debt.