Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2014

Since Founder’s shares are usually issued at the time the company is incorporated, they essentially have no real value. Vesting with no cliff. Most Founder vesting is not subject to the one year cliff because partners should already know and trust each other. entrepreneur founder rules startup stock'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2015

When an entrepreneur first incorporates his or her business, he or she may find him or herself the proud owner of 10 million shares of common stock, commonly called founder’s shares. every entrepreneur should incorporate early and file an 83(b) election with the IRS within 30 days of founding the company. In the U.S.,

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We couldn’t use them as is because they don’t have enough detail on key items, like investor protections and founder vesting. I’ve found myself explaining that to entrepreneurs a lot recently (including today) and so I thought I would write it down here so that next time I can simply send a link to this post.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We couldn’t use them as is because they don’t have enough detail on key items, like investor protections and founder vesting. I’ve found myself explaining that to entrepreneurs a lot recently (including today) and so I thought I would write it down here so that next time I can simply send a link to this post.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 2, 2012

At this point, entrepreneurs know who they’re going to be working with and along what structure, but the deal isn’t done yet… including wiring of the funds! Founder vesting is the most common example. The job of the entrepreneur is to ensure those circumstances don’t change too much in the interim.

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Gust

MARCH 16, 2014

Since Founder’s shares are usually issued at the time the company is incorporated, they essentially have no real value. Vesting with no cliff. Most Founder vesting is not subject to the one year cliff because partners should already know and trust each other. Invested Interests entrepreneur founders stock startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2013

Since founder’s shares are usually issued at the time the company is incorporated, they essentially have no real value. Vesting with no cliff. Most founder vesting is not subject to the one year cliff because partners should already know and trust each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Since founder’s shares are usually issued at the time the company is incorporated, they essentially have no par value. Vesting starts now. Most founder vesting is not subject to the one year cliff because founders should already know and trust each other. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2011

If you do decide to go down the 50/50 route, please at least consider: Make sure you have founder vesting for both of you. It is not uncommon to see startup founders walk before raising capital and take large pieces of equity with no vesting. We’re all friends when things are moving up and to the right.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

As a board member I negotiated with founding CEO’s over vesting when I thought it was their time to go. I’ll offer that both entrepreneurs and VC’s have the wrong model for founding CEO equity compensation. At best this is an argument where no one wins, at worst it’s like a nasty divorce.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. One of the greatest female entrepreneurs in American history.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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venturehacks.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneurs should think about unbundling money and value add. But entrepreneurs should understand that the top firms pick the best companies, they don’t make the best companies. Ask the Attorney” – Founder Vesting. Could you spend the remaining 10% on killer developers and sales guys? They say so themselves.

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