thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33.

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Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In addition, there are the managing directors as executive bodies. In the VC sector, it is common to introduce a third body in addition to the shareholders’ meeting and the management. regarding employee issues. Then you may only terminate those employees you actually still want to keep.

Germany 178

Germany Liquidation Preference Option Pool Advisory Board 178

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Startup Equity For Employees. 2 Stock Classes: Common and Preferred. NOTE: If youre an attorney or tax accountant with experience helping startup employees with stock and option issues, drop me a note. By convention, preferred stock classes are lettered, increasing for each round of funding: Series A, Series B, etc.

Equity 56

Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation. One tool often used: the “cutout” for management. That further reduces the amount available to founders if not still in the ranks of management.

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Dividend IRR Preferred Stock Participating Preferred 62

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. If you can’t figure this out yourself, you should probably build a liquidation preference spreadsheet to model how liquidation preferences work depending on M&A transaction value.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation. That further reduces the amount available to founders if not still in the ranks of management. So this advice is directed to the investors.

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Dividend Preferred Stock IRR Participating Preferred 48