The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals. Whichever way you look at it the conclusion is the same – acqui-hire is not a great exit strategy for investors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

As a former business exit advisor, she crafts exit strategies, adding up to five figures to clients’ net profit monthly so they can focus on growth. You start hiring freelancers and then maybe employees. And then after a while you're like, well, there's so many people, I'm going to hire a manager.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. Employee Benefits. 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 Basic Accounting. Financing A Small Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2012

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding and kick start your company? The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. A great hire can make a company, but a single bad one can break it.

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Founder Startup Exit Strategy Leadership 248

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . I also am excited to see how vendors like Stackshare and Stacklist are helping founders identify the right tech tools for their business. Pitchbot.vc is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. Most founders are product guys.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Exit Strategy 219

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

If you are a startup founder or major investor, how do you find that CEO for your “ Dream Team ” to close on funding and kick start your company? The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. A great hire can make a company, but a single bad one can break it.

Search 224

Search Startup Exit Strategy Leadership 224

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

If, down the road, you decided to take on an additional investor, or sell new shares of the company at a discounted rate to employees or family and friends, then that investor’s total ownership percentage might fall below their 10 percent ownership. See Also Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy. Liquidation preference.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

My first client, CoreNet Global, hired me right out of the gate and they were a client for nine years which is something I am very proud of. As the founder, my leadership focus is to make sure our team knows about what has worked (and hasn’t) over 10 years and what makes up the BrightWave DNA. I think I am a pretty versatile leader.

Marketing 65

Marketing Leadership Email Exit Strategy 65

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play. Technology companies in particular, which often grant stock or options to every employee, can easily pass the 500 mark if rapid growth results in rapid hiring.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2020

We have since adapted (with Snacks n Chill) to focus on helping businesses boost morale by sending care packages to employees with healthy and delicious snacks directly to their homes. So after I got my first jobs as an employee, which were horrible for me, I decided to do everything I could to live my own life and be free.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

The most classic business planning scenario is for a startup, for which the plan helps the founders break uncertainty down into meaningful pieces, like the sales projection, expense budget, milestones, and tasks. Occasionally this type of business plan is also used to recruit or train or absorb key employees, but that is much less common.

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Business Plan Technical Review Lean Forecast 119

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

He is the founder of Peterson Acquisitions and the author of Swinging Doors: A Guide to Selling Your Company. Doesn’t mean you need to be working every day to make sure it’s sellable but you should have an exit strategy in mind because you’re not going to live there forever. This is John Jantsch.

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Chad SBA Kansas City Australia 45

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. Im confident that this business will be able to compensate these two additional principles along the way, after initial risk of investing their time, and will later reward their vesting with an exit strategy.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2017

I had done the research and made changes to our pitch that would appeal to the investors we were meeting with, without distorting the reality of what we were attempting to launch: a cloud-based platform for conducting employee interviews and collaborating on feedback for recorded interviews. We thought we could change the game.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 27, 2011

HIM: Yeah, in fact one of my best employees doesn’t like [big company] and has threatened to leave if we do it, which would make it hard to continue this growth. Deal A gets you your number, but your employees get a small signing bonus and no salary raises; they’ll resent you for not taking care of them. The personal stuff.

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Up and Running

JUNE 11, 2014

We asked 12 founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council: How should startup founders calculate their own salaries versus those of staff members once the company starts to grow? Plus, paying yourself less means you’ll have extra funds to hire an extra employee, or invest in other growth areas. Don’t Compare.

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CPA Salary Exit Strategy Cofounder 123

Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

Employee compensation is not incentive compatible. Business plans can fail because employees are not compensated in a way that aligns the goal of the employee with the goals of the company. One option is to offer tailored benefits to the employee. No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders.

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Business Plan Hockey Stick Cofounder Salary 127

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

As you’d suspect, I was similarly ignorant of such things while watching the sale of ITWatchDogs (where I was a co-founder), and still harbored misconceptions as I went into the sale of Smart Bear. To hire key employees. So, once and for all, I’d like to share my own perspective on how this works.

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? Lakshman Prasad • Nov 16, 2010.

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