Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2017

But employee option pool is important enough that I wanted to briefly expand upon my comment above. Since Homebrew typically leads/co-leads seed rounds, we assist in helping founders design and manage their pool against their hiring forecast. As you can see, Weekend VC Twitter gets pretty wild and crazy!!!!

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3] This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The short term forecast is more competition between investors, whichis good news for you. 5 ]In a series A round, you usually have to give up more thanthe actual amount of stock the VCs buy, because they insist youdilute yourselves to set aside an "option pool" as well. VCs have started making angel-sizedinvestments too.

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