Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The law firm has done its job of preparing the stock option requests, board meeting minutes, 409a valuations. If you start with admin (409a valuations, small stock option allocations, board minutes) and you then chew up 20 minutes with this?—?it’s We travel by airplane to sit around considering 0.02% stock grants?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. There is a high probability that the person you’re hiring will leave you within 18 months. I never built Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

Executives run the day-to-day so often the board is more involved as a sparring partner at key intervals. The administrative work we actually do at board meetings?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

While most folks know the basic benefits of receiving stock, many employees are taken off guard by the tax implications that follow. There are two types of stock options, Incentive Stock Options (ISO) and Non-Qualified Stock Options (NQSO). Incentive Stock Option (ISO).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2017

With access to business insights and being able to formulate turnkey solutions with complementary business partners, developing a robust product roadmap has become more of an art of finding ways to create scalable and cost-effective methods to reach your business goals, based on budget and resource constraints.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

They point to several key trends in organizational cultures and working practices that can boost output, cut costs, and give employees more freedom. Their reward is more free time for leisure, or more time for bonus objectives and stock options. It does not mean the culture is soft or lacks discipline.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. Google In Early Testing of Cost-Per-Lead “Communications Extensions” in AdWords – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important? – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Manor Works – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

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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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The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

Next is to evaluate your stock options and decide how many shares you will like to buy and at what price you will like to purchase it. Another thing to consider are the associated costs and fees with buying from a particular stockbroker. For web or mobile apps, you can learn more on Trading review.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Schools can’t give stock options, but they can give praise and non-economic rewards to those who uncover a new idea that works. In education, this means knowing when to cut programs that aren’t working or that aren’t worth their cost. Know when it’s time to pull the plug.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Stock options, restricted stock, or performance shares can make your offer more attractive to the right candidate. Some benefits can be offered at little to no cost to you , but others require additional funds to see through. Offer unconventional but practical employee benefits.

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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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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Introduction SEW/corporate lawyer Walker Corporate Law – boutique corporate law firm based in SF doing this for 18+ years different perspective as a lawyer (lots of phone calls from founders with problems) purpose of workshop: to discuss some of the significant problems/mistakes I’ve seen Mistake #1: Forming the Wrong Entity you want to form a Delaware (..)

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In order to avoid formal valuation report costs, shareholders utilize benchmarks of the industry and rules of thumb to estimate the ballpark values of their interests. It enables shareholders to estimate the rough value of their business quickly and cost-effectively. Where Gross Profit = Net Sales – Cost of Goods Sold.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It’s such a tricky balance between being cost-focused & scrappy versus being impractical with how you spend your time. What if you are measuring CAC wrongly and you’re really not acquiring customers cost effectively? Stock option top-ups after a few years are vital retention mechanisms. And so must you.

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BeyondVC

MAY 20, 2004

Jeff Nolan has a good overview of stock option expensing, and why we should get involved. While I agree for the need for complete transparency of stock options, I also do not believe that expensing all options at the grant date will get us closer to true economic reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you. After all, they doubled their operating costs when they weren’t even profitable.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Others worry that investors will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. That is one of the many costs of becoming a public entity as many CEOs have found and dealt with over the years.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

However, we will have: Cost of living adjustments for different markets. As the company grows, the initial package of stock options offered to new hires will be lower and lower. At any given time, stock option awards are equal based on level. Once a year well grant people more stock options.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Make sure you understand all of your options before making any decisions. When business owners decide to go down the route of equity compensation, there are two primary options to choose between.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Our attorney updated our operating agreement to include a “non-dilution clause” for this investor, and my business partner and I later found out how much this would cost our company—both financially and otherwise. Now, let’s fast-forward about nine or ten months into the growth of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Less than you’ll probably grant your most junior employees in stock options? There are a million ways to do quick, easy, low-cost rounds with prices. Stock Option plans. They already locked in stock at a lower price. Him: Not so good. Obviously he’d be pissed off. Me: I know. My colleague: Whoa.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

However, such flexibility is countered by increased compliance costs due to the application of complex partnership tax rules that also apply to LLCs. stock options) to attract and retain talent often prefer to operate as C corps. such as incentive stock options. S corps operate in a manner similar to C corps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

The latter typically excludes taxes and non-cash expenses like taxes, depreciation, stock option compensation, etc… Groupon’s Adjusted CSOI is exactly the same but also excludes customer acquisition costs (though these are reported elsewhere). In Q1 2011 Groupon was acquiring new subscribers for $5.53

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BeyondVC

MAY 20, 2004

Jeff Nolan has a good overview of stock option expensing, and why we should get involved. While I agree for the need for complete transparency of stock options, I also do not believe that expensing all options at the grant date will get us closer to true economic reality.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

On average, it costs nearly three times an employee’s salary to replace them. This cost includes recruitment, lost productivity, and lost opportunity. Alternately, you can consider hiring contract or project-based freelancers to keep your overhead employee cost low. If you can, provide stock options for your employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

They point to several key trends in organizational cultures and working practices that can boost output, cut costs, and give employees more freedom. Their reward is more free time for leisure, or more time for bonus objectives and stock options. It does not mean the culture is soft or lacks discipline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The new, professional CEOs were unwilling to let go of the most basic assumptions driving the cost structure of their businesses. They are paid in terms of stock options that vest over 4 years and cash bonuses for quarterly and yearly performance. Investments in innovation do not pay out in the current quarter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It may not be the most cost-effective strategy or even the most convenient, but you can rest knowing that your company is doing its part when it matters most. Look into a printer’s various print methods, paper stock options, and energy usage. Less travel equals less gas consumption, which equals less waste.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

That can affect your first-time audit in two main ways: with stock option expensing and 409A Valuations. Stock Option Expensing. . When you want to issue financials that are GAAP compliant, you need to expense your stock options. Even if something is not a cash transaction, you still need to cost it.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Along with the capital costs of this investment, there was also a steep learning curve that resulted in rookie mistakes. In 2018 I fully expect to move past the initial cost and mistakes and reap from these investments. For example, this year we invested in some expensive software.

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