CTO Hire Fractional CTO Vesting 
blog.aparttimecto.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
A Part-Time CTO Technology. Depending on the level of complexity and difficulty, it might not be the most efficient use of your time. Communication - Hiring a technical employee early on can sometimes result in a founder developer gap. In Plain English. Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource?
thinkspace.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
How long should people vest – four years? Investors routinely subject founder shares to vesting, but there is no rule that says that founders cannot, or should not, impose vesting on themselves. And the vesting doesn’t necessarily need to be time-based either. Five years? Buffer Pin It Digg Digg.
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www.avc.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. First, a caveat.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad and his team at DarwinApps are considering launching DevFund — their attempt at cofounding companies by developing the MVP technology.
www.metamorphblog.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire. When you’re hiring folks, don’t promise equity upfront. Tiny, contracting market. Vest, young man. That is what gets people excited.
www.quora.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
As a result, there is a much bigger supply of these people than there are of founders who can get a company to the point of hiring some early employees. Even better, executives will negotiate the acquisition price of their company down; in exchange for a larger amount of post-acquisition retentio n equity and accelerated vesting.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Dwelling or being married to a bad idea is not a good way to allocate resources. 3 – Not the right team.
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