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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about “ The one number you should know about your equity grant “ The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever – it doesn’t matter – just the % matters). Percent of the outstanding option pool: meaningless.

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Founders Should Set Aside More Equity for Their Team & “Split the Pain” With Investors

Hunter Walker

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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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.