View from Seed

MAY 19, 2015

At the seed stage, the founder’s or co-founders’ role in the company is essential and therefore carries a great deal of risk for missteps. Without a full corporate infrastructure of support, and more importantly, without extensive monetary resources, founders and employees must spend wisely.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

So co-management is the second group to share in the bounty upon a liquidity event. Often, if not co-founders, this group is rewarded through issuance of stock options from a pool of available options that usually totals 15-20% of the total company’s equity divided among all employees.

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Liquidity Event Pre-Money Valuation Cofounder Initial Public Offering 85

Hunter Walker

MARCH 8, 2014

There aren’t yet four layers of management between you and the founders. The Early Team Still There and They’ll Be Your Tribe for Years : The founders and early team are still in place because there hasn’t been a liquidity event and the work is still exciting for them.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Before StartEngine, Howard co-founded Activision and founded Acclaim Games. . The Founder’s gut wrongly tells them their business plan has been validated because they received an investment. Weaknesses inside the founder team kill startups. The truth is, sometimes you need to replace your co-founders and start over.

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Metrics Cofounder Cram Down Liquidity Event 136

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Stay private only if you can grow fast enough to pay your employees and investors. Below we bring you the main soundbites from the event: Larry Leibowitz took the lead: ‘In 2010, there were $270 billion awarded to IPOs; but in the first 9 months of 2011, IPOs only generated half that much. “If Also more expensive.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues.

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