crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. A Simple Guide to Improving Web Typography – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

We like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and various random stuff! Startup Equity and Stock Options: What’s It Worth to You? Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China | Tuts+ Web Design – crowdspring.co/1yCnrPZ.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. In order for stock options to work, your employees must first have a vision of what stock options can do for them. Part 1 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In one instance, I told a CEO that we typically recommend a 15 percent stock options pool at seed/Series A stage. This story continues at The Next Web. The post Why offering employee equity is crucial for your startup appeared first on The Next Web. She rolled her eyes in disbelief. When I try to illustrate that this.

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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. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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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.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

WhatsApp, recently acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock options , challenged traditional Silicon Valley logic. While best practices exist, most startups fail and some of the most successful are outliers, built on anti-patterns.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The Greenshoe is an over-allotment of stock options, up to 15% of the total offering at time of IPO. You can offer these options to virtually anyone, friends, family, people who helped your company. Since they’re options, acquirers only exercise if the stock goes up, and have no downside risk or capital outlay.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 8, 2015

stock, options, warrants). You can… This story continues at The Next Web. Sometimes that motivation comes in the form of cash compensation (e.g., lucrative sales commission plan, profit share plan), and sometimes that comes in the form of equity or equity linked incentives (e.g.,

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup covers everything a software or web developer needs to know to launch and grow a startup with no outside funding. This book is aimed at developers who want to launch a software or web startup with no outside funding. Sign up to receive a crazy pre-release deal when the book launches.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The Greenshoe is an over-allotment of stock options, up to 15% of the total offering at time of IPO. You can offer these options to virtually anyone, friends, family, people who helped your company. Since they’re options, acquirers only exercise if the stock goes up, and have no downside risk or capital outlay.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

You can also contact a broker or a financial planner to help you figure out what stocks to buy and how. If you work for a company like Starbucks that offers you stock options, take them. By learning how to use the stock market early, you’ll create investment opportunities for yourself for the rest of your life.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

Also think about your first employees, it’s normal to let employees participate in the companies financial success by giving away virtual stock options (I will talk about that more next in the next part of this series). Everyone should invest the same energy and the same amount of time.

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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This can vary depending on complexity: how many founders , what “bells and whistles” will be included, whether you are doing an LLC or a corporation, and how you handle certain items, such as stock option plans, and so on. When should you use a lawyer, and when is it okay to use sites like LegalZoom?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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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. Plan upfront.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m not FaceBook or Twitter and have a s**t-ton of potentially imminent IPO stock options to offer someone. Early Stage Web Start-Up Seeking Developers. Firstly, these high demand developers probably are near impossible for me to get. That’s not my argument. But they aren’t for me or Kibin.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Are they seeking more money, stock options, a pat on the back? You can’t crack your employees’ heads open and look inside (well you can, but legal will probably advise against it) so how do you uncover what drives individual employees to work hard, stay focused and be more creative?

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Nearly all startup employees receive a number of options figure in their offer. ” The details surrounding stock options are often complex and confusing for non-financially-oriented individuals. It is essential that you ask the “number of fully-diluted shares outstanding.”

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This is the ultimate question to consider when weighing funding options. For us, because we chose to finance with debt, we gave up almost no equity in the company, and therefore almost no dilution of stock options.

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Berkonomics

MAY 26, 2010

One of the items on Cohen’s list of twenty five was stock options. Many skilled, experienced executives have jumped from mature companies to more risky positions in smaller, fast growing enterprises primarily for the options. Email readers continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

The most effective and productive team members are positive, driven and want to be measured by results rather than hear work hours, perks or stock options. Communicate job opening via your web site, craigslist and personal emails. Motivation and commitment to results. Personal character and chemistry.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MAY 19, 2010

For full time employees non-traditional compensation might include creative bonus plans, profit sharing plans, stock, stock options, phantom stock, and/or stock appreciation rights plans. There are new tools popping up on the web to facilitate connecting employers with potential employees.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

It was 40,000 shares of Sage stock, options for another 40,000 shares of Sage stock, the cash and working capital on the balance sheet (which was about $250,000), salaries of 100k for year 1, 110k for year 2, and 120k for year 3, and 10% of the profits of our group going forward.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. Facebook, Inc.

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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 features a daily deal with a huge discount on a wide range of things–from spas to skydiving–in dozens of U.S.

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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. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

LLC’s are geared for private equity funds, hedge funds and real estate guys, not startups, for a number of reasons: (i) extremely complicated tax partnership rules; (ii) creates capitalization/capital raising problems – e.g., essentially does not allow for stock options plans and convertible notes, etc.; (iii)

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

You’d have to look at your stock options contract. If you’re working for equity and you want to make sure that your percentage does not get diluted then you would need to make sure that you have an anti-dilution clause in your stock option contract. Thus employee ownership goes down to 1%. Is is possible?

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies?

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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. If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In my last post on importance of employee equity, I set myself up for an ambitious task: to explain how employee equity works and how to set up a stock options plan in Europe. This story continues at The Next Web. The post Stock up: How to structure employee equity in Europe appeared first on The Next Web.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Make the benefits of startups and stock options very clear. Stock options are a completely foreign concept to most people in Asia. Once they’re on board, I typically do a stock option education session internally every six months just to ensure they really do understand how they work.

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