www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

But you can still reel in good people - if youre generous with your equity. Offer them a big chunk of equity, or theyll go to a company thats actually selling its products - and where half of 1% is more likely to one day be worth some real money. Close the equity gap, and hiring will get a lot easier," Ravikant suggests.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The same holds true for the marketer (or growth hacker if you have a semantic preference) who controls your customer acquisition channels, the salesperson who dominates your revenue creation, or the operations person without whom, you wouldn’t even know how to issue paychecks.

Employee 102

Employee Semantic Salary Acquisition 102

Babbling VC

AUGUST 31, 2010

R ight now there is a discussion going on in the VC blogs about doing straight equity deals verses issuing convertible debt. Unfortunately, it's a matter of semantics. The thought process behind this is that my reputation as a VC in the community is far more important than trying to "win" in regards to one specific deal.

Liquidation Preference 62

Liquidation Preference Semantic Dilution Reputation 62

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. To keep the equity we out-sourced.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so it kind of goes hand-in-hand with the knowledge panel it’s just the knowledge panel for semantic knowledge as opposed to physical entities when it comes to local. Google is essentially extracting the key pieces of information from a given organic webpage and populating right on the search result.

Search 31

Search Technical Review SEO Small Business 31

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

For extra credit, stand outside one of the 3000 Sand Hill Road buildings wearing a sandwich-board saying “Will work for equity” and hand out copies of your executive summary and PowerPoint presentations. (Some VC’s have left the Sand Hill Road womb and have opened offices in downtown Palo Alto and San Francisco to be closer to the action.)

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Venture Capital 335

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2020

It gives me no equity to try to push on things that I’m not going to get an answer to. ” And I always thought the we part was interesting, almost, and that might just be semantics. ” And I always thought the we part was interesting, almost, and that might just be semantics. And I don’t know that.

Kansas City 41

Kansas City Kansas St. Louis Leadership 41

venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The rationale behind allocating more of an option pool is often basically “better safe than sorry&# rather than “let’s artificially increase equity stake of investors.&# But, this is basically just semantics. the debt holder wants free equity equal to half the equity the Series A will get. a legal one.

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Option Pool Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Warrant 68

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84