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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

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Innovating Telecom – Emir Aboulhosn (CEO) of Ready SIM

Tech Zulu Event

” It’s a compelling thought – especially when you consider the alternative: 2 year contracts, overage charges, hours of dealing with customer service reps. Sell it as needed and remove the need for long term contracts. They do this by getting a customer locked in on a long term contract and not worrying beyond that.”

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. There are many analogies here for software development. Reminds me of how the networks today announced they were blocking their video content from being shown on Google TV.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them. Short answer: no.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Defensibility in Software. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Pricing information.