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Be careful about equity and options!

Berkonomics

It is important to note that each grant to new or existing employees must be approved by the board before issue. Pricing your options: The price per share for option grants is also an important consideration. If all of this seems a bit overwhelming, we have just scratched the surface of option plans and incentive compensation.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

The post-mortem of ArsDigita takes the cake for candor and illustrating in graphic detail what goes on when investors and startup management have a falling out from the startup’s perspective. 11 – Pricing Issues. Pricing is one part science, 10 parts art. So what does this teach us?

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

When I share this, reporters often ask me, “why is management so gullible to sit there and listen to a demand imbalance goal of 30x-50x?”. Chris calls this the “at Pricing” multiple, and you should notice that is is much lower than the $VEEV multiple of 18X. The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.” (see

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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