Both Sides of the Table
JULY 22, 2010
I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. No option pool shuffle.
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
If youre offering the consultant stock options, youll also want to take into consideration what the exercise price is going to be and how long the options will be outstanding. Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says. Email address: Home.
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www.instigatorblog.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
You can’t have an option pool that takes up 50% of the company’s shares, and you have to leave room for future employees as well. He just wrote an insightful post about giving equity to early startup employees, saying something I’ve been meaning to blog about myself: 0.5-1% Thank you and great post bud.
Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders. The investor may also ask for a participation in which the investors receive some additional multiple of their investment prior to distribution of proceeds to stockholders.
thinkspace.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
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? The one thing that I think is missing is distributing equity to every single employee in the company regardless of title. Bookkeeper.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
See their blog post on multiples.). The Long Term Stock Exchange is building out a set of tools for founders for managing their cap tables, 409A valuations, cash on hand, options pool, investor relations, etc. Some technology vendors are providing options to limit distribution of confidential information from GP reports.
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 we had a solid product, strong weekly revenue growth (10% week over week), and two distribution/marketing channels that were already paying dividends.
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