Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? But these people seldom make retirement money from the stock options on these companies. Not worth it.

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www.instigatorblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees Tweet Recently someone asked me for advice on how much equity they should give to their early employees. His company had just closed an early round of funding and he wanted to cement the employee relationships. Those first employees will take 0.5-1%

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The idea of Twitter reincarnating the “verified” program under the launch of a creator economy support system would re-invigorate developers, be an easy way to start to KYC people and integrate with payment gateways (hello Square – they know people over there. 5/ The rise of operator angels + micro VCs explodes in 2021.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. . 3) Raise capital. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

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 Photo of the first online design in the library I shared my first design with my developer friend Eyesodike, who was then working for VISA as a developer.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. Research & Development. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. "We

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Startup Equity For Employees. 5 Stock vs Options. NOTE: If youre an attorney or tax accountant with experience helping startup employees with stock and option issues, drop me a note. The preferred stock held by investors has (as the name implies) more rights and privileges than the common stock issued to employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. He’d be employee number 3. When we next spoke he had found out that the CEO had about 5% and there was no management option pool in place. That’s Ok.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2014

For example, if you need to deal with record labels, there are a handful of really good business development executives who understand the dynamics of those companies and know who to call. Hiring a Head of Product as one of your first 10 employees? Building a senior team but pushing back on having a healthy employee option pool?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is thatyou know youre making something at least one customer wants. So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

From a practical perspective, this means getting actively involved in your local tech community, regularly attending industry events and conferences, writing blog posts/articles, integrating yourself into communities on social networks and, of course, doing outstanding work as an employee (to develop a great reputation).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees. 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. I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Or they bring you a handful of great employees. YC acts like a super advisor, not an investor—and YC makes their companies happen by helping develop the company’s product, introducing them to investors, and branding their companies. Many advisors want options they can exercise immediately —that’s fine.

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www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

You have a 20% option pool, so you know this will take your ownership down from 80% to 60%, and the VC will get 25%. Option Pool. Option Pool. Employees, Advisors & Consultants (12). Developers, designers, support engineers & more! Take a look at the numbers: Pre-Money. Post-Money.

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venturehacks.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Paul says, “Whenever you’re trading stock in your company for anything, whether it’s money or an employee or a deal with another company, the test for whether to do it is the same. Consider the opportunity cost of spending shares on employees and investors. We previously posted a table of market rates for employees.

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