Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

than to have to deal with healthcare benefit options, vacation policies, health-and-safety regulations and so forth. Stock option top-ups after a few years are vital retention mechanisms. We hired Steve Pease to run finance and then eventually all operations and it has transformed how we operate.

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. million to fund operations in their first year of operations. After all, they doubled their operating costs when they weren’t even profitable.

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Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

It is important to develop a retention plan right off the bat to keep employee turnover in your small business from becoming a very costly and aggravating expense. Creating a standard operating procedure (SOP) document that you can edit as you train can help you gauge over time what works and what does not. Here is how to do it.

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Employee Startup Salary Hiring 91

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. – All of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from the Facebook.com website. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2019

Jenny Blake: I was there for five and a half years, and halfway into my time there … During that five years, the company grew from 6,000 to 36,000 employees, and one major issue became retention. John Jantsch: Plus a bunch of stock options. I got a lot of experience capital from staying. Jenny Blake: Yeah, a few.

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Programming Finance Turkey Stock Options 66