Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

Give away more equity than required to drive the business. You may be getting desperate for a cash infusion, assume that money is always green, and forget that every investor is as different as every employee. The fact that your business is “green,” or cures world hunger, does not guarantee you investors, or even customers.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

At the initial stage of work on this topic, we surveyed employees. We wanted to determine which areas would be most interesting to most of our employees. Previously, the administration worked out possible options and offered employees several options. We offer our employees equal pay for equal work, regardless of their gender.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

9:19] Is there an equity emphasis? [11:06] So everything from a retail operation to, you know, a dry cleaner on the corner to a consultant, it's really typically most of our business owners are less than 10 employees. [6:09] Do you refer to yourself as a marketplace almost or more of a membership organization? [7:03]

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Soyka, author of “ Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability “ For many companies, environmentally sound operations are an important organizational value to embrace, both from a customer perspective and to attract and retain employees.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

This post doesn’t going into general tactical approaches of job offer negotiation, but rather focuses on the fact that with startups a significant part of compensation is related to equity or options. Nearly all startup employees receive a number of options figure in their offer. So the number of shares you receive (e.g.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

One of the things they’re looking for in their careers is whether companies are sustainable and green-friendly. Organizations demonstrate their commitment to ESG for nonprofits, in part, by how they manage relationships with employees, vendors, and others. In many ways, ESG has become the new measure of success for organizations.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This year, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff featured current and former Top 40 performers including Huey Lewis and the News (I’m assuming “The News” was there too, but you might fact check me on that), Green Day, Blondie and many others. You’re singing along to Green Day in the rain. No doubt Vanilla Ice is on the agenda for 2014.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. 12 – It was Just Time.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

EDGE : First, you need to make sure you need a co-founder, and not an employee. KAVIANI : Industries with high partnership rates include clean energy, green businesses, biotech and health. And don’t divide the equity too early. Don’t worry about defining equity until you understand what each co-founder does.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, a classic example of the conflicting interests of management and investors, which an independent board member can help mediate, is the approval of equity grants to management and employees. Founders should receive additional equity grants, but not to the extent that an incoming CEO or executive would.

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Board Effect

JULY 11, 2023

Members must also be up to date on the technical side of board governance: parliamentary procedure, compliance, fundraising, human resources, DEI and equity, conflicts of interest, cybersecurity, and other issues. Unfortunately, ongoing and comprehensive training for board members remains lacking for many volunteer boards and organizations.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

EDGE : First, you need to make sure you need a co-founder, and not an employee. KAVIANI : Industries with high partnership rates include clean energy, green businesses, biotech and health. And don’t divide the equity too early. Don’t worry about defining equity until you understand what each co-founder does.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2018

For example, through our women’s empowerment pillars of Entrepreneurship, Education & Equity – or as we call it, WE3, Community Commerce now invests in underserved women in each of these areas via supplier partnerships, fellowships, scholarships, mentorships and other resources. 6- Employee volunteering.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

like john 461 days ago another good question is “who are employees that have followed the ceo from his previous gig.&# The result was us getting an employee we didn’t think would work for what we offered, which ended up benefiting our company in ways we couldn’t have imagined. Thanks for the list. You rock Guy.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

To start with the amount of risk capital — including angel, institutional VC, and other private equity — deployed towards startups was actually greater in Dallas than Austin , as of Q1 2017, with $6.97 Capital One campus in Plano (Dallas): can you say 5,000 employees! just under $6 billion, respectively.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. This isn’t an issue you can afford to ignore.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Their emotional commitment exceeds their equity stake. Seagate—Al Shugart. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, what's taking a longer term view. You really want to see the whole system.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. 47:49) Brian on the letter he wrote to employees to announce the layoffs and the response to it. (50:17) 6,000, 7,000 employees.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. And then how would you prompt other entrepreneurial leaders to think more broadly about stakeholders than even just investors, employees, customers, which tends to be the typical trifecta?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. Offer equity to a programmer? How did you find your passion? What do I do?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. And then how would you prompt other entrepreneurial leaders to think more broadly about stakeholders than even just investors, employees, customers, which tends to be the typical trifecta?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Creative, innovative, or dreamy (not so sure about the last one), green 'get started' button or orange? Just go to a meetup or post an ad promising equity. For your employees? Rockstar v.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day).

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. next to nothing, charge?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. Thanks to Brad Leahy, Green ! #7- It is their GOALS, expectation and desires that will drive success. Thanks to Sid Mohasseb. #6-

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The result is more startups, more money and firms to fund it, and an increasing belief that access to technology-related equity (either as a founder, employee, or investor) must become increasingly democratized or rebalanced as a result of the compounding effects at scale we are now witnessing. 3/ The Streaming Media Effect.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Argonaut Private Equity. billing, expenses, receipts. Resumator â?? applicant tracking and social recruiting.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A green card. Given that I was not married, at Taxi Magic we started the process of getting me a worker green card. Once that’s approved – and oftentimes it is not – you are able to adjust the immigrant’s status and organize their green card. employers can obtain for “skilled” employees (the H-1B ). They oversubscribed.

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