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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees. Office Space. Virtual Office.

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Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees

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Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees Tweet Recently someone asked me for advice on how much equity they should give to their early employees. His company had just closed an early round of funding and he wanted to cement the employee relationships. Those first employees will take 0.5-1%

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. Doubtful we’d have access to such a rich employee pool any other way. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. And I’m not sucking up.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. During this year they. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO.