Employee Seed Capital Vesting 
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. Here’s why.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2014
You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.
David Teten
MAY 7, 2019
Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . We agree on an equity split, vesting, and initial compensation structure. If the answer is yes to any of these, keep reading. This work is unpaid.
David Teten
JULY 10, 2019
Do you wish there was a product to help advocacy organizations and companies “Get things done” by leveraging their own employees, their employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around them? . We agree on an equity split, vesting, and initial compensation structure. See Ready to Join a New Management Team?
Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 4, 2014
You don’t really need to worry about how much common stock will be set aside for an employee option pool or how much preferred stock might be issued from raising future VC rounds in order to determine an equitable founder stock division. Next, those that were forgoing some or all salary prior to Series A got an additional chunk for that.
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