Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

Key employees will join us as soon as we get funded." When investors contact these key employees who are supposedly set to join a company, the response is often, "I vaguely remember meeting the CEO at a cocktail party." If you''re going to tell this lie, make sure that these potential employees are locked and loaded and ready to join.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. 3) Employee Stock Purchases Are a Near-Term ATM - Facebook has issued a combination of stock options and more recently restricted stock units (RSUs) as compensation to employees. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Having the highest number of startups per capita in the world, means that some of the 300,000 technology employees in Israel worked for more than one private company, for which they hold stock options. SecondMarket was founded in New York in 2004 and has grown substantially since then.

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