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VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key incentives that made startups different from working in a large company. For most startup employee’s startupstock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options.
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Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder commonstock paperwork either then or subsequently.
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The first capital a young company receives usually takes the form of commonstock, the same class of shares the founders hold. You can end up becoming very frustrated with the investors, or cause the venture to fail if you run out of seedcapital before the angel round can be completed. Define equity type.
Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder commonstock paperwork either then or subsequently.
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