Cap Table Cost Hiring Marketing 
Hunter Walker
MAY 17, 2024
“Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio. Textio brought this vision to market with our first product, designed to help people write job posts that attracted diverse and qualified candidates. Today, you’d look at Textio and say it’s an HR Tech company.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 18, 2024
Still, there are a lot of downsides to taking venture money—the push to grow at all costs, our desire to be all up in your business, literally, and sometimes, we’re kind of obnoxious. While they might be generally smart, they’re unsophisticated investors who don’t know what the market is for where you are. What’s Simply Hired, you ask?
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Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Once again, as we find ourselves in the middle of a significant public market correction, especially around technology stocks, there’s an enormous amount of noise in the system, as there always is. Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” Go read it now – I’ll wait. It’s simply not true.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 7, 2013
They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Layer on the opportunity cost of choosing not to pursue lucrative alternatives offered elsewhere, and it’s easy to see how, if not under the right terms, the engineer #1 position is less than appealing. Cap tables sound intimidating.
Hunter Walker
MAY 13, 2023
Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition. Not in today’s market conditions.
Up and Running
JULY 2, 2014
You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called. Our attorney should have known.
VC Adventure
AUGUST 15, 2018
As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well). At the time, the cost of each of these valuations ran between $10,000 and $15,000 annually for each company.
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