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2022 Predictions

Eric Friedman

The calculus is that if the stock is going to be worth a fortune, they are better off paying for expertise early vs. take a risk on early full time employees risking option pool, culture fit, and ramp time. This makes for “taking” a game community easier, and introduces new complexity for big game studios.

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2021 Predictions

Eric Friedman

10/ Community is a moat. Yes, but it turns out physical spaces lost out this year and virtual spaces and communities won the day (year?). No, but close. 9/ MR (mixed reality) finds a killer use case. In fact, my prediction on Magic Leap was dead wrong. 2020 Prediction Results. Final score =.5.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

This developed into another question: Even more, since there’s so much that goes on within the community, how can I know in one place, on my phone, what’s going on?—?in in the African communities around me? No class, no community project, and certainly no job straight of college can teach you all this?—?or in one undertaking!

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Join our community. If youre offering the consultant stock options, youll also want to take into consideration what the exercise price is going to be and how long the options will be outstanding. Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says.

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When The VC Asks: About Your Hiring Plan

Hunter Walker

Excellence is always hard to find (and should be valued no matter what the discipline) but if you’re looking for someone with, for example, general online marketing skills, a junior visual designer or the first community support team hire, I consider it pretty low risk. Those people are out there. Won’t work out well.

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Startups: Cut the Wheat from the Chaff on Quora

VC Cafe

Short answer: Start building your community from day one, and put a real emphasis on building it offline. Instead of a 20% option pool, we created a 40% option pool, and gave out half of it to the first half-dozen hires who came on and were willing to work without salary for a period of time, forming the core team.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. At a $1 million, pre-money, with an investment of $500K, that would leave 67% of the company for the founders and initial option pool.