thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees. Strike price of options: meaningless.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Invest in Your Employees Investing in your employees is just as important as investing in technology or physical assets. Additionally, consider offering incentives such as bonuses or stock options to reward employee performance. Invest in Your Community Consider investing in your local community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# I talked about the need to have a restricted stock plan for your earliest employees. You’re not screwing me – you’re screwing your fellow employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Formal option plans for some. Some companies, especially those financed by angel or VC investors, have good, formal stock option plans with properly priced options set to reward all employees and managers in the event of a corporate sale. Email readers, continue here…] Now, there are three kinds of exits.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Should be overwhelm prospective employees with stock options and perks? But more difficult is the sticky issue of employee incentive compensation. This one seems non-negotiable for many non-production-line workers and offers savings for both the company and employee if properly implemented and supervised.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

How about employees all the way down the line and through the corporation? But how about awarding stock options for all employees? These plans are not as popular today because of their complexity and difficulty to manage, lost in favor of simple stock option plans. Yes, sometimes the news is not good.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

The most effective and productive team members are positive, driven and want to be measured by results rather than hear work hours, perks or stock options. Communicate job opening via your web site, craigslist and personal emails. Motivation and commitment to results. Personal character and chemistry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Some rules about stock options and phantom stock: [Email readers, continue here…] The real insight here is that stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early-stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. Here are some rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

12 free email marketing templates for small businesses | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1nSfwgB. Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. The One, Life-Saving Change Workplaces Can Make For Their Employees – crowdspring.co/1r4ba0i. 1xGhzaC.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] One of the items on Cohen’s list of twenty-five was stock options. Many skilled, experienced executives have jumped from mature companies to more risky positions in smaller, fast growing enterprises primarily for the options. See insight 28.).

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Pay early stage board members of companies that are not lifestyle businesses one percent of the fully diluted equity in the form of an option that vests over four years of service. Email readers continue here.] Inside board members, CEO and any other paid employees are not paid for board service in either stock options or cash.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 4, 2017

Employee taxes. Hiring the right employees. This is why it’s important to find employees with potential. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee. Approach them as you would an investor—what can this possibly over-qualified potential employee gain from joining your team? Travel expenses. Liability insurance.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This often comes in the form of long emails or tedious board discussions about compensation and bonus programs. My partner Dave and I took the number, made a list of all employees, and figured out how much we were going to give each of them. Now, I’m not a huge fan of programatic bonuses. We did this on an accrual basis.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. In order for stock options to work, your employees must first have a vision of what stock options can do for them. Email this to a friend?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Peter in The Peter Principle : Why Things Always Go Wrong wrote in the early 1960’s of the “lateral arabesque,” describing how companies promote incompetent employees sometimes by sending them to another department or division to get them out of the way of progress. “The Rebound: The Double Arabesque – rehiring the employee.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

There are startups out there that are valued at a billion dollars, but because of employee salaries, assets, etc. Now we’re no longer spending employee manpower on a service that wasn’t helping accelerate the right type of growth we need. Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation.

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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. I left an Octel (think email but with voice … yes, that’s what some businesses used before email!) Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2019

We’ll send you all the details via email. Negotiate Your Equity And Salary With Stock Option Counsel Tips. Here’s How Startup Founders Should Offer Employee Equity. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when. How to assign stock options in early-stage startups.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We’ll send you all the details via email. Negotiate Your Equity And Salary With Stock Option Counsel Tips. Here’s How Startup Founders Should Offer Employee Equity. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when. How to assign stock options in early-stage startups.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2018

The option price should be set by appraisal under IRS rule 409a, and certainly should be low enough to recognize that common stock options are not worth as much as preferred stock, given the many preferences of the latter. Expenses for travel are often reimbursed by the corporation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The number of employees grows. Once created, it is logical to follow the standard practice in the creation of two standing committees composed of outside board members (not employees or executives) – the compensation committee and the audit committee. Email readers continue here.]

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

And then there are options: [Email readers, continue here…] Stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. Each grant to new or existing employees must be approved by the board before issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Our biannual reviews are done internally by management; they are not intended as a way to give employees grades or gold stars. This amount will be prorated according to salaries and percentage of the year that people worked, so every employee will receive a part of the profits amounting to an equal percentage of their salary.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

this requires a strong knowledge of market data, employee performance, company performance relative to market and available resources?—?cash cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price? I call these “filibuster” boards. I’ve seen both quite a bit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. They were then sued for trademark infringement by a foreign company who had no product, no customers and no employees in the US. It was a pure shake down.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 7, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Often, if not co-founders, this group is rewarded through issuance of stock options from a pool of available options that usually totals 15-20% of the total company’s equity divided among all employees. Dividing equity among those that fill the management gap.

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BeyondVC

MAY 20, 2004

Jeff Nolan has a good overview of stock option expensing, and why we should get involved. While I agree for the need for complete transparency of stock options, I also do not believe that expensing all options at the grant date will get us closer to true economic reality.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Jana handles everything from strategic business formation to employee matters, stock options, partnership agreements, partner disputes, confidentiality agreements, buyouts, global trademark registration, commercial leases and all stages of startup funding, and corporate restructuring.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I have spent a great deal of time studying the fundamentals of stocks, option trades, goal-setting, and public speaking. But also I am excited to bring out my book and work with small businesses to focus on engaging more succesfully with their employees. All my studying and hard work has resulted in a breakthrough.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Email address: Home. Employee Benefits. 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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