Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Founder Vesting [Jared Hecht/USV] – Jared joined USV earlier this year and it’ll be interesting to see how his writing changes as he adds ‘institutional VC’ to his founder and angel investor knowledge. Stretching things out to a six-year vest helps to prevent co-founder abandonment.
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 27, 2016
One of these norms is how founder vesting and employee vesting works. I won’t get into employee vesting today as that has much more to consider than I have time to cover in this short post today. Here is a good summary post from Cooley GO on Founder Vesting. The first is fairly obvious.
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Andrew Payne
SEPTEMBER 9, 2017
I’ve probably had a thousand or more discussions about startup equity: figuring out how much to offer, negotiating, or advising others. In practice, most equity grants within a company are driven by broad calibrations with existing employees. Also, founders should absolutely implement some form of vesting.
Scott Edward Walker
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The only solution in such a scenario is to negotiate a repurchase of those shares, which could be very expensive or impossible (if the departing founder wants to screw with his co-founders). This is a particular concern if the startup is in the same space as a founder’s prior employer. IP Ownership.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2011
Hire your co-founder. Give them a large sum of equity. Vested over 4 years. Truly treat them like a co-founder. Most senior employees who join are given 2% if they join early. If you do decide to go down the 50/50 route, please at least consider: Make sure you have founder vesting for both of you.
venturehacks.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
The Equity Equation. As this nuclear winter of venture hacks continues, I thought you might enjoy our thoughts on Paul Graham’s The Equity Equation. ” Read the rest of The Equity Equation first; it is great. You have to pay market rates regardless of the equity equation. by Nivi on July 19th, 2007. Summary: 1.
venturehacks.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.
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