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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

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For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. If i is the average outcome for the company with the addition of some new person, then they're worth n such that i = 1/(1 - n). of the company for him. of the company for him. n = (1.2 - 1)/1.2 =.167.

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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

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So, the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Level of responsibility and time allocated.

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5 Keys To Negotiating Your Fair Share Of Any Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

So the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Level of responsibility and time allocated.

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.)

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

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We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. That''s where the traditional media companies--the morning shows, the news clips shows, the ad agencies--can see what is viral and trending, and can license it directly from us.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). After we sold it to that public company, I founded HashtagOne. What's the theme of your investments?

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. What is FilmBreak? What's your background? Where's the service now?

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