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 go native.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
5 Must-Use Tools for Brainstorming Company Names – crowdspring.co/1wehUO7. Startup Equity and Stock Options: What’s It Worth to You? and the Internet of Things | UX Booth – crowdspring.co/1wjvAJt. and the Internet of Things | UX Booth – crowdspring.co/1wjvAJt. Fewer bosses. – crowdspring.co/1sSpg62.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
Consumers responded to name and concept well, solves real problem, o Took 4 months to build initial prototype. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options. And he said ok got it.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. We were all at each other’s weddings, brit milah / baby namings and unfortunately a funeral. We ARE family.
www.joelonsoftware.com
MARCH 24, 2010
Stock Options Stock Options are weighted heavily to compensate the people who take the most risk, namely, the people who join Fog Creek when its just a wee tiny company and were all jammed into one tiny office and we cant afford to buy your kids braces and sometimes you have to change the Poland Spring yourself.
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. We can all name companies with spectacular success or failure, employing any of these techniques. Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then.
Gust
DECEMBER 8, 2011
Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g., and search for its availability as a corporate name, domain name and trademark (all separate inquiries). Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”) Caveat entrepreneur !
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