Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Two-f **g-billion!
www.joelonsoftware.com
MARCH 24, 2010
Stock Options Stock Options are weighted heavily to compensate the people who take the most risk, namely, the people who join Fog Creek when its just a wee tiny company and were all jammed into one tiny office and we cant afford to buy your kids braces and sometimes you have to change the Poland Spring yourself.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2011
Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process. If you have been giving stock options, employees will want you to be a public company, to exercise their rights to buy the stock and sell it at a profit. Do you need this for recruitment and retention?
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Internet and Online Business. 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. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Leadership. Strategy and Planning.
Gust
DECEMBER 8, 2011
Strategic partnership or distribution agreements. For startups that are Internet or mobile businesses, as I’ve written before , terms of use and privacy policies are far from boilerplate and are perhaps the most important documents setting the ground rules for the company’s interactions with potentially millions of users.
www.copelandfirm.com
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Solutions to Divvying up Founders Shares In my experience, the best way to distribute founders shares is through unequal distribution with vesting. This often leads to resentment and burn-out, which in turn can cause a founder to leave early. These adjustment meetings can also be built into the founders shareholder agreement.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 2, 2010
I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. So while the rest of my Internet-savvy friends were leaving Andersen Consulting to go work for technology startups – I wanted to choose life. I wanted to work there.
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