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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

If you’re thinking about extending equity to an employee or a vendor (as in the example above), you should know that the topic is multi-faceted. If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Finding great employees first.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees.

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How to Fund Your Startup Without Losing Control

Up and Running

They allow you to hire more people, purchase new technology, and establish new business connections, among many other benefits. practice in mid-sized or large organizations and act more as employees than owners of the medical practice. Capital investments are like gasoline on a startup business’s metaphorical fire.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

The Aqui-hire Business. If the money comes from professional investors it usually has a “liquidation preference” meaning that their money comes out before the founders or common stock. (If And wants to structure a huge payout for the employees that will remain. I know many rank-and-file employees.

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

www.mattbartus.com

A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. Blog blog archive.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Hire a CEO to Go Public. People had to actually pay you for your product.

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Cash-strapped? How to pay for services with your startup’s equity

The Next Web

From Silicon Valley to Peoria, Illinois, cash-strapped startups look for inventive way to finance their business – often handing out equity to employees, consultants, vendors, and other service providers. However, if you are thinking about compensating non-employees with equity, make sure to consider the following points: 1.

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