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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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Ideation/IP. Sometimes, however, there’s an existing code base that one co-founder brings.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. A community who vest their interests in each other. It took Betapreneurs to invent the category.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Sometimes, however, there’s an existing code base that one co-founder brings.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

That should be good news for manufacturers who are grappling with the Internet of Things and other new technologies. “Companies and employees who embrace the rapidly transforming digital landscape stand to achieve the greatest success,” says Mike Train, executive president, Emerson Automation Solutions.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Sometimes, however, there’s an existing code base that one co-founder brings.

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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. founders’ shares subject to vesting) and IRS filings for most favorable tax treatment of those shares. Offer letters for employees.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). The founders along with all the other employees would vest their stock over 4 years (earning 1/48 a month). Some founders have three-year vesting. Some have no cliff.

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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. You can be talking with potential employees all along the process getting them excited. Founder vesting. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ).

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. The rule is simple: every employee is 100% responsible for how they spend their time. The suggestion is that you implement one single company-wide rule. I asked why.

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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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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I despised every minute of it, which is why I decided to establish an internet business. Increased productivity means increased profits allowing manufacturers to pay higher wages and attract the best employees. Instead of watching TV or trolling the internet I thought I'd try my hands at coding. I didn't like it much.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . EquityZen , SharesPost , and ZenPrivEx , help employees and investors liquidate their positions in late-stage companies.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Depending on the business type, there’s the option to have employees and contractors work from their homes to minimize or eliminate the cost to rent an office space. Hire Freelancers and Contract Employees. The most logical place to start thinking about technology is in the area of Internet and phone connections.

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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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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. 20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) 6,000, 7,000 employees.

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Transformify

MAY 10, 2023

This trend is particularly prominent in skilled white-collar jobs that can be performed remotely from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. However, this growth also brings certain risks, as data at the state level suggests that between 10% and 20% of employers misclassify at least one employee.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Go vest yourself.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Employees’ Ability to Create and Innovate. Google lets its employees spend one day a week (20 percent of their work time) focusing on their own projects, which has contributed to 50 percent of Google’s product offerings. I believe Google’s major success has always been the work environment it has created for employees.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

Finding a programmer who will work in exchange for a vested interest is difficult; the alternative is to have and be willing to fork out dollars constantly for work you want done on your website. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The team over at Overto felt the lack of at least one full-time resource was the primary reason for their failure writing : We thought we’d able to run internet service after hours. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. To some point that was true.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Where do you think the internet is taking us for the future? How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? The way I do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

You can give them 20% of the company with a vesting schedule over four years (this way if things don’t work out you don’t lose too much), and you add infinite value to your team. Co-founders/employees (0:43:47) : Pick a co-founder who is better than you and pick employees who are better than you. Speak human! (0:46:20)

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). the analogy of 1.6

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