Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Sweat equity. This unpaid work component is sized in dollars, added to any funds contributed, to represent the total contribution of a founding partner and converted to an equity ownership percentage in a new startup. Equity crowdfunding. These deals usually come with retention packages -- so be careful.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

In most positions you rarely get the opportunity to experience the functions associated with the roles of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer, as well as manage the day-to-day requirements for customer engagement and retention.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In a rapidly evolving world, the success of any organization is intricately woven with its commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). OTG consistently invites its staff to engage in dialogue and exchange ideas and pathways to further ensure equity throughout Open Technology Group.

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Entrepreneur Equity Retention Employee 121

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2020

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Another Government financial support scheme in the UK is the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Venture capitalists are those that provide significant financial backing in exchange for equity in the business. Venture Capitalists.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Coca-Cola has brand equity that makes people gravitate towards it. In this article, you’ll understand what brand equity is and how to build it so your audience reaches for your product, service, or solution over the rest. Why brand equity matters now more than ever. Brand equity. It’s the safer bet. Every day in the U.S.,

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Equity Marketing Social Media Software Review 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

It still amazes me that some entrepreneurs seem totally at a loss on this question, or customer retention rate, or even margin expectations. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO. Show that you have to ability to move the ball forward.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2022

Clearly, workplace empathy is vital for both engagement and retention when it comes to millennials. The greater your effectiveness in terms of implementing these retention strategies the better the results. Millennials are uncompromising in the virtues of equality, equity, and inclusion. Understand the millennial mindset.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The single most important SaaS metric is retention , because cancellations indicate lack of product/market fit, no matter the cause (price, features, severity of need, duration of need). So, retention is most-important, regardless of stage. It impacts retention because high-NPS implies they’ll stay. Once you’re scaling (i.e.

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Metrics Retention Revenue Equity 270

Board Effect

APRIL 12, 2021

Your code of conduct should incorporate a commitment to values such as honesty, integrity, equity, transparency, and confidentiality. Records retention and destruction. Compliance training should include education on how to establish a code of ethics (it may also be called a statement of values or code of conduct). Whistleblower.

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Software Review Government Retention Leadership 91

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

One such program is the Employee Retention Credit (ERC). During the pandemic, private investors have offered their support in different ways, from providing direct financial assistance or taking part in equity rounds of financing or debt financing. The ERC is a tax credit available to employers with 100 or fewer employees.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here’s what I’m purposefully excluding: SPACs, crypto, founder/investor secondary that didn’t include the team, potential fraud, soft-landings dressed up as acquisitions, never compensated their teams with equity, etc. Spotify gave Betty Labs an estimated $67m for the Locker Room app that became Spotify Greenroom.

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Founder Equity Acquisition Retention 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

Focus on existing customer retention and repeat business. Build your brand equity and relationships with customers. Build your brand equity and relationships with customers. These days, brand equity means relationships with more customers, and a more memorable overall experience.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 24, 2023

For years there has been this idea that employees are cogs in a machine, and this feeling of being disposable has been the ruin of productivity , engagement, and retention. Employees also value organizations that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and prioritize employee development through training and skill-building programs.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 4, 2016

While finding great talent is hard enough as it is, retention is even harder. This problem becomes even more acute when you factor in a new generation of millennials entering the workforce, who expect to be treated with more transparency and equity than any generation before them. We live in the age of LinkedIn and Glassdoor.

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Technical Review Retention Employee Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2019

Examine recruitment and retention practices. Look at the recruiting and retention practices in your workplace: are women and women of color applying for open positions? Regarding retention, who is applying to upper-level positions and professional development? Are job descriptions worded to encourage diverse applicants?

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Salary Retention Ohio Cofounder 198

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Limited brand equity. The Prioritization of Customer Retention. But it’s also important to focus on customer retention as part of your growth strategy. Even if your customer retention situation isn’t that extreme — customer turnover can immediately compromise the effectiveness of your strategy.

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Early Stage PPC Retention Churn Rate 125

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

And in the last few years, these cases have prompted D&O insurers to put specific M&A retentions into their policies. Retention, or self-insured retention, refers to the amount of money an insured business is responsible for paying first in the event of a claim before the insurance kicks in.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

Using feedback implements or engagement initiatives, keep employee expenditures lower later on by investing in teams’ satisfaction and retention now. Thanks to Corey Philip, Acumen Equity Advisors ! #7- Tighten up your business by focusing on team wellness and feedback before the recession hits. Thanks to Kevin Miller, Kevin Miller. #6-

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Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Revenue 92

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Those who are accepted will receive an investment of $50,000 in return for some equity in their companies and intensive mentoring at its downtown offices, as we wrote about last year here. JBara.com complements and extends traditional CRM software such as Salesforce to improve customer retention and satisfaction.

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St. Louis Kansas City Technical Review Kansas 127

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. A turkey is a turkey – [link]. 6 Signs You’re Not Fit to Lead – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. And it's funny, we were, when we sold half the company to growth equity firm, they're like, what is this inflection point here?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

The total value of these deals might look higher than when a tech company makes an acquihire but the premium tends to go to retention rather than the cap table (especially since (a) the acquirer might not be seen as an ‘attractive’ place to work and (b) there’s assumption of less equity upside post-acquisition).

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Technical Review Cap Table Acquisition Startup 115

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash flow, equity when there isn’t.    And, while debt is less costly than equity, it can bankrupt a company more quickly than more expensive equity might. This is an equity example, of course.  This is also now an equity situation. 

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Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43

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Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 168

Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2017

Last time I checked a solid software developer will cost you six figures in salary; ignoring equity. Our lawyers also bill about 25% fewer hours per year than BigLaw lawyers, which improves their quality of life (helps recruiting/retention). And ‘coding’ mistakes are 10x more fixable, and potentially less costly, than legal mistakes.

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Startup Salary Early Stage Software 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

Sometimes you’d even get lucky and receive stock in the acquirer, which was how I gained pre-IPO equity in high growth stars like Pinterest and Facebook. I was on both sides of these transactions – buying startups for Google/YouTube and angel investing in high quality technical founders.

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Early Stage Cap Table Acquisition Sales 117

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Online Education’s Dirty Secret — Awful Retention – [link]. SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups | TechCrunch – [link]. Online Education’s Dirty Secret — Awful Retention – [link]. Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

First, any branding and SEO equity you built up under the old name are jeopardized. Another option is to give equity; Aaron Patzer knew that Mint.com was a valuable domain name, but couldn’t afford it initially. So he gave the owner some equity in his startup, which was worth a few million dollars when Mint exited.

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Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

That summer a private equity fund acquired the assets of the company. Say you have 1000 customers and $1000 to spend on customer retention and loyalty. These numbers are not uncommon for tripwire marketing retention campaigns. In 2015, 9-figure apparel retailer Karmaloop.com filed for bankruptcy. They brought me in as CMO.

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Bankruptcy Marketing Campaign Intellectual Property 106

The Equity Kicker

MAY 3, 2018

However, growth is now slowing and that’s at least in part because they have been over-focused on what they can measure and neglected brand and some of the more qualitative aspects of customer experience that might have improved retention.

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Metrics CPA Early Stage Retention 87

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43

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Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 100

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Corporate KPI’s, Policy and Procedures: Innovation Killers. HR Process Historically Human Resources was responsible for recruiting, retaining and removing employees to execute known business functions with known job spec’s.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It takes extra effort and focus on some special techniques, including the following, to get the edge you need over your competitors in customer attraction and retention: Set order-of-magnitude goals. They are trained in school, and by many experts, that running a business requires logical workflows and analytical thinking.

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Retention Valuation Equity Analytics 120

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Are diversity , equity, and inclusion (DEI) a part of your organization’s core value system? We believe that embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion as organizational values is a way to intentionally make space for positive outcomes to flourish, whether in direct services or the nonprofit capacity building or public policy spheres.”

Metrics 52

Metrics Leadership Equity Community 52

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The college notes that students who participate in civic engagement activities have higher grade point averages, increased retention rates, and higher graduation rates. .- This nonprofit college is committed to service-learning as part of student success.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? How much equity should I give up? How much equity should I grant to early employees? No loss of equity, at least until they convert at Series A. How much equity should be given to employees?

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Equity Employee Dilution Valuation 40