Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

Get your company talked about in the blogs and newsletters they read. Above all, don’t panic or demoralize your employees. It’s detrimental to tell your employees who have bought into the vision, mission and excitement of a startup to know that it’s for sale the day you start it. Don’t demoralize your employees.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Reserve 10-20% Of Your Company’s Outstanding Equity For A Stock Option Plan. It is critical for a start-up to consider this reality and reserve 10-20% of its outstanding equity for a stock option plan. Equity incentives are a major form of compensation for most emerging growth and technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 6, 2015

Of late, I’ve encountered numerous potential startup candidates and newly hired employees who have no idea what their equity means. It falls on the hiring company to thoroughly explain equity options to their new employees. What’s the strike price ($ value per) of the options I’m being granted?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 6, 2015

Of late, I’ve encountered numerous potential startup candidates and newly hired employees who have no idea what their equity means. It falls on the hiring company to thoroughly explain equity options to their new employees. What’s the strike price ($ value per) of the options I’m being granted?

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2022

Selective Leaks of Previous Discussions & Policy Debates In The Name of ‘Transparency’ Would Put Twitter Employees At Risk. as a blog post opener is usually a good reason to close my browser window and take a walk. Typing “I know this makes me sound like a crazy person but.” But hey, it’s 2022, let’s soldier onward….

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This post originally appeared on the 15five blog. You can’t crack your employees’ heads open and look inside (well you can, but legal will probably advise against it) so how do you uncover what drives individual employees to work hard, stay focused and be more creative? On the same page. Putting the WE in TEAM. Lend a hand.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

My argument for this method is that subjecting a director or advisor to the typical 30-day to 90-day post-termination exercise period used for an employee optionee holding Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) would be unduly harsh on directors and advisors.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

However, this is only possible when an organization has educated employees at its core. An excellent corporate culture is tolerant, utilizes technology, and ensures equal treatment of all employees no matter where they stand on the hierarchical ladder. About 98% of American employees look towards empathetic leaders for motivation.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The Employee Lifecycle. The best way to approach management quality assurance is through the lens of the employee lifecycle. Do your managers and employees do an effective job of selling your company to prospective employees? Shortly after joining, how well does an employee understand what’s expected of her?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

There are books on most (but not yet all) of the critical topics about startups, and of course a massive amount of information on blogs and Twitter. Key employees will join us as soon as we get funded." 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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Stock Option. Self-employed people are permitted to stash away considerably more in their retirement accounts than employees and they are investing it anyway (usually in the stock market) so they may want to dedicate a portion of their portfolio to angel investments. Management Resumes and Organizational Chart.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” But if you want it in it’s full V1 glory read on … You’ve never been a CEO but might like to be one some day. Nobody sees you as a CEO since you’ve never been one?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. Define how you want to motivate your employees every day to produce high-quality and industry-leading results. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2017

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. I have spent a great deal of time studying the fundamentals of stocks, option trades, goal-setting, and public speaking. But also I am excited to bring out my book and work with small businesses to focus on engaging more succesfully with their employees. Thanks to Ruth Kudzi ! #7-

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Moreover, the two-year vesting schedule—as opposed to the four-year schedule typical of employee options—is preferred for directors because it magnifies the incentives for these influential individuals. Using a two-year vesting schedule encourages a director to perform well so that he or she is retained for a second term.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Foundation for New Employee Hires Formulate and socialize with the Board acceptable compensation bands (both salary and equity options) for new employees. Hire a firm to conduct a 409a valuation to set a strike price for your employee stock options, which nees to be at or above “fair market” value.

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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It’s essential to make sure you take reasonable steps to control risk in your interactions with customers, suppliers, users, employees, and the general public. Hiring employees. Her blog Kontrary offers career, business, and life advice that works. 3 Signs Your Employees Think You Suck as a Manager. Each other.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. "We Email address: Home.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

Add employee stock options if you have exercised any. He regularly writes for blogs at MoneyForLunch, Biggerpocket, SocialMediaToday, NuWireInvestor & his own blog for Self Directed Retirement Plans. You can also take credit from government and other specialty programs if required.

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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. At that time, the MySpace team had grown to some 30 or 40 employees, housed in separate office space in Santa Monica.)

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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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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Startup Equity For Employees. 2 Stock Classes: Common and Preferred. 5 Stock vs Options. 6 Founders / Restricted Stock. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers.

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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.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m not FaceBook or Twitter and have a s**t-ton of potentially imminent IPO stock options to offer someone. Ground floor opportunity and voice in shaping the company — you will be the third employee, your input and work will be invaluable. That’s not my argument. But they aren’t for me or Kibin.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

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. Strike price of options: meaningless.

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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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Start Up Blog

JUNE 9, 2016

If you want to be rich, there’s more chance of that happening being an employee of a company that already has a billion dollar valuation. In both cases: a funded startup or being employee – you’ll compromise control. In that case you may as well have the certainty of money that goes with stock options and employment.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 9, 2016

If you want to be rich, there’s more chance of that happening being an employee of a company that already has a billion dollar valuation. In both cases: a funded startup or being employee – you’ll compromise control. In that case you may as well have the certainty of money that goes with stock options and employment.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The company is struggling and needs to hire or let go of a significant number of employees. The board needs to set new policies for stock options. The board needs written documentation of what the shareholders of the corporation decided. The board wants to expand the company.

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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 rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. It’s a subjective topic.

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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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Board Effect

MAY 13, 2019

However, many businesses offer stock options as an incentive to attract executive talent. Some startup companies also choose to implement an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP). Obviously, keeping an accurate ledger of shares as they are issued or expire (with employee recruitment, termination, etc.)

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2010

It helps with recruiting top management talent, particularly since the value of/likelihood of exercising employee stock options appears greater. This credibility is key to a small company, particularly if it is selling to big customers who might be skeptical of their ability to stay around long-term.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. Note: All of my advice in this blog is that of a layman.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

As regular readers of my blog know, I was born in Nairobi and grew up visiting the developing world in the 1980s, after my family moved to the United States. The hidden cost of this (and employee burnout) is one that any investor is all too familiar with.

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