Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. -

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. So when you first start building your team, the most important hire should be your lead architect. The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. Culture creation is not easy.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

Aside from the time-consuming tasks of screening potential employees, interviewing, and re-hiring , losing and replacing employees is expensive. Hire the right people. This may seem obvious, but it’s worth mentioning: the best way to ensure that employees don’t leave your new company is to hire the right people to begin with.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 4, 2017

Hiring the right employees. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee. Stock options, increased pay over time, a flexible schedule, and use of work resources are all great incentives for snagging yourself a talented new employee. Overall, just focus on hiring the right people—the people with potential.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters. And in times like this, give them more.

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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. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when. How to assign stock options in early-stage startups. Guide to Startup Stock Option Grants.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

When we decide to hire someone, the interviewers who were involved in the "hire" decision will sit down with the candidates resume and salary history and figure out what level they will start at. If we hire people in other cities, we will simply use industry-standard COLA adjustments to set salaries in other cities.

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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. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when. How to assign stock options in early-stage startups. Guide to Startup Stock Option Grants.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Should be overwhelm prospective employees with stock options and perks? Well, here are rules to make money work for you in recruiting AND to better control its use after you’ve hired your candidate(s). And there are some industries where tools such as stock options are considered mandatory for a company to be competitive.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 7, 2021

Few entrepreneurs can do it alone, with subordinate hired help and no expert management to share the burdens, skill sets, and efforts involved in growing the enterprise. So, co-management is the second group to share in the bounty upon a liquidity event. Dividing equity among those that fill the management gap.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. I’d be grateful if you could prioritize it.

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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. I’ve got to trust the team I’ve hired to do their job, so I can do the things that only I can do and not get caught up in minutiae. All my studying and hard work has resulted in a breakthrough.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 3, 2011

Stock options. If you are interested, contact the guys at Key Ring directly via email at info@keyringapp.com. Benefits are likely to include (i.e., talk to them about this): · Health Insurance. Ability to work with a very casual but professional team in a non corporate environment.

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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. Approving the budget and watching over it during the year and approving any actions that would dilute ownership including stock option grants, are two examples.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Email address: Home. 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 Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says. Tools & Research.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2024

Compensation’s charter is to approve stock option grants for any employee, no matter how small the grant, and all salary and benefits for at least the CEO if not the next level down, to avoid conflict of interest with the CEO.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Few entrepreneurs can do it alone, with subordinate hired help and no expert management to share the burdens, skill sets and efforts involved in growing the enterprise. Most importantly, the reward is measured by how much added value the total process creates over time.

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ithacaVC

JUNE 20, 2011

2. You need (or think you need) a stock option plan: granting stock options (and other forms of equity compensation to employees like restricted stock) should be done under a written equity incentive plan. Lawyer time required: 5 to 10 hours dependent on how fast you are hiring.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 27, 2015

We charge a flat fee of $2,000, plus filing fees, for up to three co-founders and it includes unlimited phone calls and emails. If you hire any employees, make sure you don’t misclassify them as an independent contractor or fail to pay them at least the minimum wage (see post here ).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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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. Attracting, evaluation and hiring direct reports is a task that should never be delegated.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2010

Email readers continue here.] For this, an advisory board member for a small to medium sized company should expect to receive options equal to ¼% of the fully diluted stock of the company, vesting over two years, and subsequent grants of the same size if renewed in subsequent two year intervals.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] Now, when first meeting with an entrepreneur, I ask simply, “Is the business being formed as a Keeper or a Flipper?” Flippers financed by venture capitalists are more likely to hire executives having high level profiles and previous exit experience.

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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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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options.

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ithacaVC

JUNE 12, 2011

Examples: (i) hiring, (ii) firing, (iii) workplace harassment, (iv) raising investment capital, (v) borrowing money from a bank, (vi) entering into an agreement with another company, and (vii) creating a stock option plan. If you want any recommendations just email me. The list goes on and on.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Six Months Later… Fast-forward six months and everyone in the company is wondering why the sales (or marketing or finance or product) guy who has produced nothing got such a monster stock option package. Meanwhile, the people doing all the work have much fewer options. So what happens? Final thoughts.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? When I find, and hire on options, the three perfect CEs/directors must I consider them co founders and treat them accordingly? Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. You can email me at thnkspc (aatt) impressthenet dot com.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. Meetings are definitely one of those places, but email is another primary way that that comes in. So that’s a very simple way of saying it’s task management, but it’s getting rid of emails that of course no one wants emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. 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. Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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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. An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares.

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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. He had a stock option vesting program and had vested a significant amount of his stock but not all. Lawsuits are becoming so prevalent these days.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Most of the other companies participating in the hackathon were based in the United States and lacked any H-1B visas , which are necessary in order to hire these folks, so we were the only company to give them substantial offers. The recruiting process shouldn’t simply be about putting up a job posting or hiring a recruiter.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Compensation’s charter is to approve stock option grants for any employee, no matter how small the grant, and all salary and benefits for at least the CEO if not the next level down, to avoid conflict of interest with the CEO. Email readers continue here.]

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I sent an email out to ALL at Return Path a few years ago with that as the subject line. So here’s the full text of it: ALL – This may be one of the weirdest emails you’ll see me (or any CEO write)…but it’s an important message that I want to make sure everyone hears consistently. How to Quit Your Job.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Solution: Use a hiring plan to size the option pool.

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