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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

If you assume a 20% cost of capital (typical for equity, debt is generally cheaper), then getting an upfront payment for one additional year on a $10k MRR contract saves you $24k. Another point I wanted to raise was that of clawback. How do you clawback revenue from the sales guy? How do you clawback revenue from the sales guy?

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Also see Preqin’s Key Due Diligence Considerations for Private Equity Investors. . VC and private equity are very illiquid on both the investing and the personnel side. – Clawback scenarios.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: September 5th – 11th

Scott Edward Walker

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets “Capped convertible notes are a lazy solution for people who don’t want to choose between debt & equity.” oZkDvH Clawbacks Without Claws – solid reporting re the failure of Sarbanes-Oxley (“a dormant enforcement tool”) nyti.ms/nDm9qL ” - @davidhornik bit.ly/oZkDvH