This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 4, 2021

If everything you know and love about New York City is shut down and you can work remotely, why stay? Thanks to the pace of vaccinations, New York City is opening up again. That’s why some oppose increasing taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers—citing price elasticity theories. Forget about just not increasing taxes.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. The New York Times has a story about it in today's business section. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Tesla is not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

That still requires a business team and story that continually motivates stock brokers and public stockholders. You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

That still requires a business team and story that continually motivates stock brokers and public stockholders. You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

When the Airbnb founders walked me through their model, how the hosts were also guests, how their community was developing, and what they’d learned from different markets like Barcelona and New York, it showed me that they were on top of Airbnb’s key business challenge, which is to build powerful marketplace dynamics.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Vringo decided to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock price has since decreased to $3.80 In an interview with the New York Times, Medved sited a couple of key advantages of being a public company, including: 1. So what did Vringo do instead? Vringo sold 2.4 million shares at $4.60

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

He has served as advisor to and member of numerous financial exchanges, and was the founder and CEO of Arthur Lipper Corporation and co-founder and Chairman of New York & Foreign Securities Corporation. The Flipper’s executives usually have significant equity holdings, either actually owned or reflected in stock options.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University in New York City, concentrating on intellectual property law. Our guest today is Jana Gouchev, Esq. She received her J.D. from Benjamin N. Jana was formerly in the corporate department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Pryor Cashman.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

I learned that they weren’t in New York, but were in Stamford, Connecticut, which I’d never been to. They’d acquired a few companies so far and had LOIs out to a few more. They were really happy with Jim, Mike, and Allcom and wanted to buy more companies in Boston.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Corporate incentives: Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 developed a broad-based equity incentive compensation program known as stock options.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

cities, including Chicago, Boston, New York and San Francisco, for large groups of potential buyers on the Web, through email or via social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Groupon is getting a lot of attention for their latest round of funding, which values the company “above $1 billion&#.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

At a small company, particularly one where everyone has stock options, there’s no such thing as “not my job.” There were trade-offs with both options. But there’s only one New York City in the world. Don’t be too proud to take out the trash, literally or metaphorically.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

At a small company, particularly one where everyone has stock options, there’s no such thing as “not my job.” There were trade-offs with both options. But there’s only one New York City in the world. Don’t be too proud to take out the trash, literally or metaphorically.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? 109k/year plus the option to build more widgets in the future.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The Israeli operations will be based in Herzliya and New York.“Israel Having the highest number of startups per capita in the world, means that some of the 300,000 technology employees in Israel worked for more than one private company, for which they hold stock options.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

Alex Blumberg at Internet Week in New York. This week, we hear from Alex Blumberg from Gimlet Media and the Startup Podcast in our new Bcast Bytes segment. Photo Credit: Insider Images/Andrew Kelly. Only have time for a Bcast Byte? That’s my dream.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The criticism comes from credible, important journalists and bloggers such as Joe Nocera from the New York Times, prominent economics blogger Felix Salmon, and former GE CEO Jack Welch. This factor has been largely dismissed in the press with characterizations like this from Joe Nocera of the New York Times: “When pressed, H.P.

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