Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2012

I read a few articles over the weekend about OnLive potentially going out of business, potentially screwing its employees, and a few other things. It’s painful and sucks when you are part of a company that fails (I know from experience – I’ve been there many times) – whether you are a founder, employee, or investor.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I have spent a great deal of time studying the fundamentals of stocks, option trades, goal-setting, and public speaking. But also I am excited to bring out my book and work with small businesses to focus on engaging more succesfully with their employees. All my studying and hard work has resulted in a breakthrough.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. Internet and Online Business. 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 a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process. Liquidity can help attract new employees and keep current ones happy. If you have been giving stock options, employees will want you to be a public company, to exercise their rights to buy the stock and sell it at a profit.

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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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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Determine the allocation of equity among co-founders, early employees or other service providers, and future contributors as applicable, as well as the vesting schedule , if any, that will apply. Offer letters for employees. Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g., Newco, Inc.”) Independent contractor or consulting agreements.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

You can find a good start-up lawyer to help or if you want to do it on the cheap there are tons of websites you can find on the Internet to help. Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. Pick the founding members.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

France has proven its ability to develop innovative internet models Over the past three years, we have invested over $60 million in French technology start-ups with Showroomprive (number 2 in Europe for online private sales), BlaBlaCar ( Covoiturage.fr Is this the “social justice” announced by the government?

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

3) Employee Stock Purchases Are a Near-Term ATM - Facebook has issued a combination of stock options and more recently restricted stock units (RSUs) as compensation to employees. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. billion in cash profit last year.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

At the time I couldn’t even imagine an Internet – that would have been more fantastical than the science fiction that was my genre of choice. The hidden cost of this (and employee burnout) is one that any investor is all too familiar with.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

At the time I couldn’t even imagine an Internet – that would have been more fantastical than the science fiction that was my genre of choice. The hidden cost of this (and employee burnout) is one that any investor is all too familiar with.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? This answer. Please specify the necessary improvements.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2012

Sharing ownership with employees has become much more popular in the world of Internet startups and IPOs. The idea is that if people have stock they’ll be more productive. The problem with this mentality however is that if employees don’t have psychic ownership first and foremost, real ownership probably won’t benefit anyone.

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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. So while the rest of my Internet-savvy friends were leaving Andersen Consulting to go work for technology startups – I wanted to choose life. I wanted to work there.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2020

The Internet is free, and crypto networks enable the creation of additional value for users and contributors. . This combination (delegating governance to users AND making it easy for them to earn a stake in a platform) is a very promising step toward creating a more equitable Internet. 3) A decentralized governance model.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. This knowledge becomes the foundation on top of which a gigantic knowledge pyramid gets built which includes: Knowledge of every employee who gets hired and why. were the driving force behind Intel and IBM, respectively. Thomas Watson, Sr.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

Smart phones (with internet and GPS and maps) at sufficient consumer penetration make Uber and Lyft possible. You also need to answer this question on behalf of your future employees. But why will the 50th employee join ? Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

Alex Blumberg at Internet Week in New York. I have no idea what kind of offices, how many employees do you have, what are you doing, that is not my strength. It’s going to make, and their employees, but I think we’re just scratching the surface of the changes that will come over the next, probably 10 to 15 years.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. The first generation of internet entrepreneurs did well, but they were “single country winners” – they were always “the French or German e-commerce company”, for example. They’re building them for the world. We were very proactive though.

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