Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2014

Their ultimate goal was a native mobile app but they’d built a proof of concept on web (with some light mobile web responsiveness). Building a senior team but pushing back on having a healthy employee option pool? A few months back I was talking with a small company raising their seed round. Won’t work out well.

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Hiring Option Pool Early Stage Term Sheet 108

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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. What would the ideal web technology start-up team be comprised of? See also [link]. 5 engineers.

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Option Pool Analytics LLC Startup 88

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Such service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time).

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Stock Options Stock Warrant Common Stock 61

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are numerous places on the web where you can benchmark the amount of cash and equity compensation for any given function, level, and startup stage. On the equity side, each startup has a fixed option pool from which they’re drawing. So the number of shares you receive (e.g.

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Startup Equity Vesting Salary 121

The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Startup employees are granted common shares out of something called an option pool. It is typical for employees to vest their options over four years with a one year cliff, which means a new hire must stay on the company for at least one year to see any shares. What’s everyone else getting?

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Engineer Dilution Option Pool Vesting 129

The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2012

After all, cash may be in short supply, but there’s a virtually endless amount of work to be done, from coding and web development, to PR, sales, general operations, or sage advice from an industry veteran. Many young tech startups reserve 15%-20% for employee stock options. It’s a logical solution.

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Equity Stock Options Vesting Stock 116

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

If you get a call from a VCfirm, go to their web site and check whether the person you talkedto is a partner. Odds are it will be a junior person; they scourthe web looking for startups their bosses could invest in. So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [ Theres only common stock at this stage.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And for the love of high-speed internet and all things Web 2.0, Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about “ The one number you should know about your equity grant “ The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever – it doesn’t matter – just the % matters). Percent of the outstanding option pool: meaningless.

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Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Model Equity Calculator for Founders with Option Pool Expansion – crowdspring.co/1fwUdsA. Interesting Web Design Trend: Vertical Split Layouts – crowdspring.co/1eEmorS.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

You’ll hear terminology getting bandied about left and right about things like convertible notes, capped vs. uncapped, stock option pools, board observer rights, maturity dates, priced equity. There’s a lot more information around the web on these topics, so Google around. Almost all of that was foreign to me.

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