Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 8, 2022
The right motivated employees dilemma. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback.
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
– Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network. VC is a “get rich slow” business, because most VC Partners will not see a carry check for 5-10 years, after waiting for both liquidity events and for LPs to be paid first. This requires a real financial sacrifice.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 10, 2019
The right motivated employees dilemma. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback.
Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Notice what is missing from this list of priorities: The company itself – that is, a business entity, most often a corporation , that will own the entire business (however defined), issue equity to founders, take investment capital , enter into contracts, make sales, pay employees and contractors, and so forth.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 14, 2014
The right motivated employees dilemma. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2017
The right motivated employees dilemma. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback.
Hunter Walker
MARCH 8, 2014
The Early Team Still There and They’ll Be Your Tribe for Years : The founders and early team are still in place because there hasn’t been a liquidity event and the work is still exciting for them.
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