crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

10 Ways to Make Your Relationship With Your Co-Founder A Success – crowdspring.co/1sSi21Y. Startup Equity and Stock Options: What’s It Worth to You? 33 Best SEO Tools for Blogging – crowdspring.co/1t2l0kr. Fall Cleaning: 22 Fresh and Free WordPress Themes to Damp Wipe Your Blog | noupe – crowdspring.co/1t2lmrj.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. Lawsuits are on the rise.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. I think it was either in one of your blog posts or one of your other interviews, but being alone, it’s getting hard at times.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Schools can’t give stock options, but they can give praise and non-economic rewards to those who uncover a new idea that works. In our world of almost instant computer-driven communications, blogs, chat rooms, Tweets, Facebook pages, and apps galore, news travels fast. Know when it’s time to pull the plug.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship. Don’t leave anything out just because you and your co-founders already talked about it.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I mentioned to Mike that I was going to kick this series off over on the Meebo Blog , but he suggested I start it here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. These situations are only compounded if you have 3 or more founders. I know that many people reading this will be in companies with 3+ founders and aren’t having any friction. They agreed to all be co-founders.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 16, 2016

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Solid podcast re employee stock options with @bhorowitz & @skupor : [link]. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly ) for the past four weeks.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. These options were granted shortly after MySpace, Inc. These options were granted shortly after MySpace, Inc.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. You can follow Wade’s writing on his site or the Zapier blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Eric, I wrote an open letter on my blog to the gov2.0 Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Advisor compensation Whether you’re hiring a normal advisor or super advisor: Advisory shares are usually issued as common stock options. The options typically vest monthly over 1-2 years with 100% single-trigger acceleration and no cliff. All our products Pitching Hacks , Cap Table , and Co-founder Interview.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Yes, the Ted Leonsis who co-founded AOL and now owns the NHL's Washington Capitals and the NBA's Washington Wizards (among lots of other things). While Groupon's founder Andrew Mason thought this was a cool idea, it never really caught on, and the company stagnated. Recently, Ted Leonsis told me an incredible story.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Which is particularly surprising since Vringo’s CEO and co-founder, Jon Medved, was formerly a venture capitalist himself. It helps with recruiting top management talent, particularly since the value of/likelihood of exercising employee stock options appears greater. What’s most interesting is how Vringo raised the money.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I ‘m very impressed by Rand Fishkin’s A Cautionary Tale from the Startup World posted on his blog over the weekend. That – trying to do too much – qualified as Doing it All , which is #5 in my recent top 10 business planning mistakes on my main blog. Second: not even faint praise for this CEO.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Do you mean the shares go to the founders? But if you do another round of financing first, those unallocated shares will go into a new option pool. Reply # Hooshyar Naraghi · Apr 15, 2007 The option pool raised a question for me, if you could kindly comment. You are already compensated through your founder’s shares.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Corporate incentives: Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 developed a broad-based equity incentive compensation program known as stock options. The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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