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

APRIL 18, 2024

If you elect your board members annually and for some reason aggressively change members, you will experience the steep learning curve required to get the newest board members up to speed to contribute with deep knowledge of the company and of your management style. And that’s not good. How about staggered four-year terms?

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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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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. Good people and evil people.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Wikipedia reminded me – it’s another Peter Drucker creation from The Practice of Management. This often comes in the form of long emails or tedious board discussions about compensation and bonus programs. I have a deeply held belief that a manager cannot “motivate behavior.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is new is the trend and mentality to just look for results and ignore other traditional management constraints, like the amount of time spent. Their reward is more free time for leisure, or more time for bonus objectives and stock options. Measuring results in itself is not new. Reward shorter hours of high productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. 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. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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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. 44 engineering management lessons – crowdspring.co/1x7TVkf. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB. 1xGhzaC.

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Berkonomics

JULY 5, 2018

Or if you’re an employee with stock options, are you aware of the increases in value you can make with your efforts? Then again, you may be an architect or doctor or other professional managing your. Ever think about growing your business with the plan to sell it someday, cashing in on your hard-earned work over the years?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. Email readers, continue here.]

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Up and Running

JANUARY 4, 2017

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. Struggling with effective time management. When faced with a limited number of hours in the day, it’s no wonder they struggle with time management. Social media.

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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. You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] One great source for coaches is among fellow members of a CEO roundtable organization, Young Presidents Organization or similar association where you are comfortable with the coach candidate and know something about his or her style. Where can you find the best coaches?

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

I spent years as a manager at a startup company. As a manager, I found that most people who applied for a job with a new business loved the idea of working hard to help build something from the ground up. Work on your management skills. One of the secrets to keeping your star performers is enhancing your management skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I work hard to create working relationships with my fellow non-management board members in the same way that every investor ultimately works to develop strong working relationships with founders. cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price? I’ve seen both quite a bit.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We’ll send you all the details via email. Ready to join a new management team? How To Evaluate A Job Offer – Tips For Senior Managers And Executives. Negotiate Your Equity And Salary With Stock Option Counsel Tips. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2019

We’ll send you all the details via email. Ready to join a new management team? How To Evaluate A Job Offer – Tips For Senior Managers And Executives. Negotiate Your Equity And Salary With Stock Option Counsel Tips. Private company stock option grants: a founder’s guide to who gets what, when.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

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. Obviously for the appropriate individuals, a bonus program aligned to the department’s goals is appropriate.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about “ The one number you should know about your equity grant “ The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever – it doesn’t matter – just the % matters). CEO 5 - 10.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 7, 2021

How many of them, particularly in technology, were able to start a company, supply all the funding, and share no management tasks or equity with others, and still grow the company to any significant size, worthy of a multi-million-dollar opportunity to cash out at exit? Two: Co-management.

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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. In other words, you cannot create bargain options at below “market rates.”

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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. After all, you’ve likely given your employees stock options which make them part-time business owners as well. But that’s why we emphasize picking up the phone. We even joke that our cell phones are “WARP walkies”, like old school walkie talkies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

What is new is the trend and mentality to just look for results and ignore other traditional management constraints, like the amount of time spent. Their reward is more free time for leisure, or more time for bonus objectives and stock options. Measuring results in itself is not new. Reward shorter hours of high productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

What is new is the trend and mentality to just look for results and ignore other traditional management constraints, like the amount of time spent. Their reward is more free time for leisure, or more time for bonus objectives and stock options. Measuring results in itself is not new. Reward shorter hours of high productivity.

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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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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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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

Follow Me on Twitter @robwalling Subscribe via Email Receive very occasional emails when I publish a new article. It just so happens that most people are not in a place where they can pursue that route. Start Small, Aim High Leave a Comment Building Your Startup?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach? Some charge by the hour, making themself available much as an attorney, keeping track of hours spent on phone calls and emails with you. And some will willingly work for stock options, an amount to be negotiated based upon time spent and stage of corporate development.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. Also the proportion of email subscribers who’ve bought a Groupon has held up reasonably well. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The twist (“double arabesque”) is that your company management only then realizes what the person is worth, and makes advances to bring him or her back at an even higher salary and more inflated title. Additional stock options? One initiated not just by the player, but by the largess of management. The moral of the story.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Email address: Home. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H. Related resources at inc.com: How to Take Stock.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

What is new is the trend and mentality to just look for results and ignore other traditional management constraints, like the amount of time spent. Their reward is more free time for leisure, or more time for bonus objectives and stock options. Measuring results in itself is not new. Reward shorter hours of high productivity.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 29, 2019

The board is responsible for approval of all deferred compensation for all employees at all levels, such as stock option grants, and is responsible for the vision and strategies for growth and protection of the corporate asset. The board selects, monitors, helps, and oversees compensation for the CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We had to learn how to be better at “load balancing & replication&# – meaning how we managed data across all the boxes since they weren’t centralized on one box. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Second, employees most often genuinely want to know how they are performing against the company’s standard and management expectations. Semi-annual reviews are excellent, especially for companies that offer stock options as well as merit increases for outstanding performance.

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