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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

www.avc.com

Employee Equity: How Much? The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

www.entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). What is Sweat Equity Worth? BY Asheesh Advani. |.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself. Size of Opportunity - market size, revenue or usage, exit outcome and their ability to get equity early are all important.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. BROWN: Real time intra-day risk. End of day is fairly easy, but not real time. Tal Liani, Managing Director, Equities Research-Communications Equipment, Bank of America. Introductory remarks.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos.

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

Time Wasters - Don''t talk too much. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO. I just had a fellow CTO ask me about a particular technical design problem and several directions they could go and ask for my thoughts on the tradeoffs for those different choices. Just to the facts. Stay on point.

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How To Build a Web Development Team Without Technical Expertise

www.collegemogul.com

We spent a lot of time asking everyone we knew if they knew anyone who would be looking to intern with a startup. We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. On a bootstrapped budget free is great.