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Your need for a board grows with complexity.

Berkonomics

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. I engineered the extraction of the outside investors, even at a near total loss.

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Remote Workers Tend to Stay With a Job Longer Than In-office Employees

Transformify

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. Is it easier or harder to manage remote teams?

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

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. Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs. This is minutes 8-11.

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Twitter Link Roundup #238 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

12 free email marketing templates for small businesses | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1nSfwgB. Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. MailChimp has created a beautiful Email Design Guide – crowdspring.co/1r2d81q. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I never built Google.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Email this to a friend?