Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Stock Option. The post How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors appeared first on Bplans Blog. Management Resumes and Organizational Chart. Customer References. Personal References. Social Security Numbers (for background checks). Capitalization Table and Shareholder Roster. But don’t ask for a non-disclosure.

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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

You don’t want a senior partner preparing documents for an incorporation, nor do you want a third-year lawyer negotiating with a seasoned venture capitalist for you. A junior lawyer at a small firm in a smaller city may charge $150 an hour, while senior partners in big firms in major cities have been known to charge over $1,000 an hour.

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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. I believe that you should have a “partner&# or 2 in the company. I believe you should treat them as partners. This is part of my ongoing series, “ Startup Lessons.&#. To the contrary.

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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. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C.,

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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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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. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. I’m not FaceBook or Twitter and have a s**t-ton of potentially imminent IPO stock options to offer someone. Skip to secondary content. Post navigation. ← Previous. You can read more about that here. It was a much different time then.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. Uncle Saul.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. That VC who saw me stick through hard times at my first company and get an exit at both companies is the firm where I’m now a partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. I started blogging because Brad Feld blogged. It turned into this blog. “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner. He asked for nothing.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

so glad we found this blog [too bad it was a little too late]. BTW, I tried visiting your blog but it crashes my Safari browser (Mac version) each time. I wrote a previous blog article regarding startup co-founders. [.] North says: June 9, 2009 at 8:50 pm Thanks for this whole blog its the best I have found.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about “ The one number you should know about your equity grant “ The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever – it doesn’t matter – just the % matters). Member Coordinator. Bookkeeper. Marketing Intern.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Six Months Later… Fast-forward six months and everyone in the company is wondering why the sales (or marketing or finance or product) guy who has produced nothing got such a monster stock option package. Meanwhile, the people doing all the work have much fewer options. Everyone wanted a piece of me.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2019

Culture is often the primary reason why a candidate joins a particular company—more than salary, stock options, or the inherent risk associated with the business. As Managing Partner of a global executive search firm, he sourced CxOs, VPs and Directors for more than 400 startups and high-growth companies.

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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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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

For $250, you'll receive legal services to help you incorporate your company, including help preparing stock option plans. The Boston deal is already sold out, and Philly startups should act now while supplies last (wow, I've never actually typed that phrase in a blog post before). Level 2: Get Your Books in Shape. Discuss.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm , the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. They are paid in terms of stock options that vest over 4 years and cash bonuses for quarterly and yearly performance. Rakim, Follow the Leader.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

There’s the owner—maybe a partner or two—but unless employees are offered equity from the get-go, there’s typically not a whole lot of dilution. This summary often includes the number of shares reserved for employee stock options and other such incentive programs. Why do cap tables matter? Totals & Summaries.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

What if the founder already included an option pool in the existing shares outstanding? For example, assume 5M shares outstanding out of which 20% (or 1M shares) is reserved for employee stock options. Xobni Man Walking » Blog Archive » Raising Money, Letters to Graduating YC Companies, Letter 2 - Aug 8, 2007 [.]

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joel.is

DECEMBER 10, 2013

I thought that writing a blog post as the answer could help lots of other founders too. Within the Buffer team we have complete compensation transparency and every team member knows each others’ salary and equity stake through stock options. Interview requests, getting press and discussions with partners.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

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. Why not get a partner? You may call it employee number one with a really low salary and really generous stock options and as the company grows, you’ll fix their salary. Edwin: Okay.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Typical first-time SV entrepreneurs are not millionaires, so let’s say you have 100k in the bank (maybe you’ve made some money from stock options). You are the founder and CEO of GulpMonger, three years out of college, fresh out of Y Combinator. It many cases it means to not have to work for a living.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

In addition, customers and business partners can also make use of this short hand to figure out how to best work with your company. Andreessen argues that people ask for many things from a company: salary, bonus, stock options, span of control, and titles. There are two schools of thought regarding this.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

But I have put in hundreds of hours writing my blog, Lucky7, since 2012. the press, current and potential consultants, potential employees (to be clear, all current employees are in the arena with you), current and potential clients, current and potential partners, current and potential investors, etc.

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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. I was lucky enough to have Y Combinator, the partners, and my batchmates walk me through a lot of this. Almost all of that was foreign to me.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

A few years ago, I wrote a few case studies on how some big players achieved scale - like Akamai , TripAdvisor and athenahealth - to help crystalize my thinking on the topic, but I thought it might be appropriate to write a more general blog post on the challenges that companies face at different points in the scaling process. .

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Disclaimer: my business partner, Marc Andreessen, is on the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard. I note that I have no inside information, and this blog post is based purely on published material. Every pension fund, every retiree, every charitable organization, every employee who joins and is compensated via stock options.

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