Eric Friedman
DECEMBER 27, 2021
With the advent of programs like CartaX and what I call streaming venture funds , the liquidity in private markets is going to get the foundation to grow significantly in 2021. As of this writing BTC is at $48K and this ended up happening in early Jan 2021. 4/ Streaming equity – venture funds + employee stock becomes more liquid.
Eric Friedman
DECEMBER 30, 2020
The idea of Twitter reincarnating the “verified” program under the launch of a creator economy support system would re-invigorate developers, be an easy way to start to KYC people and integrate with payment gateways (hello Square – they know people over there. 5/ The rise of operator angels + micro VCs explodes in 2021.
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VC Cafe
OCTOBER 16, 2010
link] – affiliate and referral programs (my company). Instead of a 20% option pool, we created a 40% option pool, and gave out half of it to the first half-dozen hires who came on and were willing to work without salary for a period of time, forming the core team. uTest – crowd sourced testing.
The Startup Lawyer
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
This advice holds true for even if the incubator’s program provides tangible items free and such items have an assigned monetary value. For example, if your startup get $2,000 worth of massages during the program, don’t add the $2,000 in free services to the $25,000 investment amount. Conclusion.
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
If youre offering the consultant stock options, youll also want to take into consideration what the exercise price is going to be and how long the options will be outstanding. Create an options pool, if nothing more than in your mind, so you have some parameters to work within," Durkin says. Select Services. Two trucks.
Professor VC
JANUARY 17, 2008
At a $1 million, pre-money, with an investment of $500K, that would leave 67% of the company for the founders and initial option pool. Keeping this simple with no employee option pool and just founders and investors, investors would hold 60% at this point (20% for angels and 40% for VCs) and founders would have 40%.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Employee option pool: The framework conditions for employee option pools remain a major problem in Germany. Even after the 2021 reform, employee option pools will continue to be structured via phantom stocks, as this is the only way to reliably avoid the dry-income problem.
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