David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. 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.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

You also need to think about how much equity you want to have set aside and available for your future employees in your option pool. Future investors will want and option pool, and more importantly it is ways of attracting talented employees to your startup.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division.

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www.startupnorth.ca

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Contact Jobs StartupIndex Founders versus early employees by David Crow on September 10th, 2009 in Resources Not everyone can be a founder. But for every founder, there is an early employee that takes near equal risks in joining an early-stage company. David Beisel We need to celebrate the employees at startups.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Startup Equity For Employees. 5 Stock vs Options. NOTE: If youre an attorney or tax accountant with experience helping startup employees with stock and option issues, drop me a note. The preferred stock held by investors has (as the name implies) more rights and privileges than the common stock issued to employees.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The final figure will depend on the client’s situation, including the number of employees of the company and the amount of capital that it hopes to eventually raise. Whatever the percentage, it pays to plan ahead.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

From a practical perspective, this means getting actively involved in your local tech community, regularly attending industry events and conferences, writing blog posts/articles, integrating yourself into communities on social networks and, of course, doing outstanding work as an employee (to develop a great reputation).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees. At a $1 million, pre-money, with an investment of $500K, that would leave 67% of the company for the founders and initial option pool. Blog Archive. My Blog List. November 22, 2009 2:03 AM. Post a Comment.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Or they bring you a handful of great employees. Many advisors want options they can exercise immediately —that’s fine. If your company hasn’t raised a Series A, increase the advisor’s equity by roughly 30%-50% to account for dilution from seed investors, Series A investors, option pools, swimming pools, and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. Founder vesting.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Especially in situations where the founders have a large position and are key employees, it is not uncommon for investors to request that they agree to have some portion of their holdings vest on a schedule. Subscribe to this blogs feed. These include: ·       Vesting of Founder Stock. Bootstrapping.

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www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

You have a 20% option pool, so you know this will take your ownership down from 80% to 60%, and the VC will get 25%. Option Pool. Option Pool. Employees, Advisors & Consultants (12). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Take a look at the numbers: Pre-Money. Post-Money. Post-Money.

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venturehacks.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Paul says, “Whenever you’re trading stock in your company for anything, whether it’s money or an employee or a deal with another company, the test for whether to do it is the same. Consider the opportunity cost of spending shares on employees and investors. We previously posted a table of market rates for employees.

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