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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

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Unlike the founders, the employees have to wait until their grants vest, working at a company no longer of their choosing for two years. Stock vests for 4 years. Oh, and one last thing, make sure you figure this out upfront, you have it vest, you have ways to get it back, etc. Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Thirty more articles related to this: How To Calculate Sweat Equity - Get Venture: Venture Made Transparent , February 11, 2010 How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get - Nathan Hurst , July 19, 2010 When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”) - Brad Hargreaves , March 7, 2010 Make Sure Sweat Equity Vests - Get Venture: Venture Made (..)

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CTO Equity - Negotiation After Funding

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Having a successful negotiation where you get a reasonable equity position with vesting over four years and a salary going forward only to find yourself working at a place you don’t want to be is probably not a great result? But, you should probably start with understanding where they believe that prior verbal agreement stands.

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CTO Equity - Negotiation After Funding

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Having a successful negotiation where you get a reasonable equity position with vesting over four years and a salary going forward only to find yourself working at a place you don’t want to be is probably not a great result? But, you should probably start with understanding where they believe that prior verbal agreement stands.

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Entreprenuer Network

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April

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- A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , April 19, 2010 5 Tips On VC Alignment: Discuss The Exit Before You Enter - OnStartups , April 29, 2010 Founder Agreements – Vesting, Vesting and more Vesting - High Contrast , April 25, 2010 Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers - Feld Thoughts , April 25, 2010 Adding a Co-Founder In 140 Characters (..)

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