SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Paul Graham provides what is roughly the core formula for equity at any point in The Equity Equation : You can use the same formula when giving stock to employees, but it works in the other direction. Stock vests for 4 years. Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn? You get 1%, you sell for $150 million and it’s in 3 years (e.g.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations To find the equity numbers that were relevant for the particular person here, I went back through my prior post and looked at Wilson Sonsini and DFJ Gotham Ventures The Option Pool Shuffle Employee Equity How Much How much equity for investors and employees?

CTO Hire 329

CTO Hire Equity Seed Stage Option Pool 329

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Think Again How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen How Much Stock to Ask For When Joining a Startup - Startup Professionals Musings , June 20, 2010 Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 Eight Tips To Successfully Bootstrap Your Business Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

How Much Stock to Ask For When Joining a Startup Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate Doing It Right the First Time: The 15 Most Common, but Avoidable, Mistakes Made by High Growth Start-ups Again – I would love to hear input on this and other sources of information.

CTO 167

CTO CTO Hire Equity Vesting 167

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

How Much Stock to Ask For When Joining a Startup Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate Doing It Right the First Time: The 15 Most Common, but Avoidable, Mistakes Made by High Growth Start-ups Again – I would love to hear input on this and other sources of information.

CTO 150

CTO CTO Hire Equity Vesting 150

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. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Tesla is not.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

SoCal CTO

MAY 7, 2010

Short Adobe stock? Let me explain based on a comment in the other post. Someone said: "I am not sure I am ready to bet on the long slow death of Flash just yet." What does it mean to "place bets" on death of Flash? Make pronouncements in your blog? Argue about it? I don't actually care that much about these things.

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