Questions regarding payment for services rendered.
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Startup CFO contract / stock compensation?
I am looking for a sample contract for a CFO position in a startup company. Also, What is an appropriate amount of compensation to give a CFO in terms of stock.
Thanks!
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How much equity for co-founder reducing role for academic program?
I'm a technical co-founder in a pre-funding company in a niche tech segment, working with two non-technical co-founders who have largely overlapping skill sets. I met them at a networking event and ...
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Fair commission for sales agent
My start-up is going to provide B2B custom software development services on a project by project basis. I have been talking to a prospective sales agent, who would take over the following ...
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Mentor requesting for board of director role, should i offer director or advisor role to him?
We recently met a person through our contacts and he has shown interest in our startup & super liked the Idea. We had initially requested him to be our mentor, for which he agreed. In our next ...
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What is adequate compensation for consultants at an early stage (pre-funding) start-up?
I am currently offering people who work on our start-up 0.05% option to purchase vested on the 3 month to 9 month schedule. Have you had this situation before? What is fair?
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How should we compensate a non-founder in a new web-based business who is critical to the launch of the business?
We are in the very early stage of organizing and launching a new web-based business. There are two co-founders - one who is CTO and one who is CEO. In addition, we will be including a third person ...
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What is an acceptable commission structure for a marketing rep?
I am a marketing professional with over 10 years of successful experience. My specialty area is strategic thinking/planning.
Recently a local company in its first year of operation asked if I ...
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SaaS founders incentives: Business and Technology
We are two 50/50 founders of an enterprise SaaS company. both cofounders are tech people with a good grasp of business knowledge.
Mainly, one of our cofounders brought most of our clients and handled ...
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What's typical in terms of royalties?
I'm a developer negotiating compensation for a commercialized version of some data analysis software I wrote (see my profile if you like). This is a completely new experience for me. I want per-unit ...
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Partner leaving - Compensation
We are 2 partners of a shop.
From next year we will no longer remain partners as I will be starting another business. My partner would continue to operate the shop.
What are the most common things ...
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Commission or Compensation for a Regional Outside Salesman for a Product-Based Business?
My Company & Personal Background
I have never hired/managed a sales person, but I would like to hire my first. From when I founded the company 3 years ago up until now, I've only received sales ...
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What equity should I claim as a founder CEO?
Some people I know came up with a idea of a startup. They will provide also the seed investment (50k) and contacts for future investment rounds.
I will be in charge of the start up of the company from ...
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Compensation in a well-funded pre-series A startup in Silicon Valley
I have had a favorable (and rigorous) interview process at a pre-series A startup (12 months old) that has a solid product, a very good team and excellent market traction. They have raised around ...
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Negotiating equity/commission working for friend's startup
I've been working with a friend's startup for about six months now. We have minimal revenue thus far, but things look to be on the brink of coming through. My role with the company has yet to be ...
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Commission for in-house sales activity
I'm joining a software startup as a (co-founding) CTO. I am also bringing my industry contacts into the venture, and will be the only person taking initiative on business development. My contacts are ...
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How to split profit in a property management business inc between two owners?
My friend and I are starting a property management business (inc). How do we determine profit sharing? We charge property owner a set percentage as a fee. We are thinking 50/50 on everything losses ...
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Compesation at a Start Up - Tied to Founders Schedule
I have been offered to join the senior management of a start up. The compensation structure includes salary, equity, commission. Here are my questions.
Is it fair to ask to be tied to the founders ...
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Reasonable compensation for building a product prototype
I'm negotiating a job to build a prototype for some people. They will show that prototype to investors and can potentially get funded.
Do people usually get compensated for this? If so, what should I ...
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Compensation model for a joint venture
We're looking to enter a joint venture with another entity in order to collaborate on a large IT based project. The agreement is that the other entity will provide most of the human resources, whereas ...
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What's a typical sales compensation for professional services firms?
We are looking at hiring our first sales person (who is not one of the partners) so that we (the partners) can focus on building the business instead of Lead Generation/Qualification. The question ...
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We are bootstrapping our startup, Is this a fair compensation offer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
We have a team made up of four co-founders. Our equity split is:
Co-founder #1 40%
Co-founder #2 5%
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What is a good cash/equity mix for a 1099 programmer and/or designer for 4 to 6 month term?
We have been coding now for about 6 months on our startup. Up until now, we have bootstrapped the entire project on pennies, being cash poor. Fortunately we were able to raise a small friends and ...
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Startup employer asking for w-2
I had an interview at a startup and things went well. The HR called me later and asked me what my expectation of salary was. I then told them what I was expecting. A week later, they came back asking ...
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Which is the standard way of compensating against dillution?
First some context to my question.
I started working in a startup a year ago. Since then I've been working part time on it (around 15-20 hours a week) in an informal way (no remuneration), while ...
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How to Compensate College Ambassadors
I am building a website that I hope will be very popular with college age students and I am planning on getting a few students in some nearby colleges to help pump up the idea to their classmates. ...
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Start up Equity pre funding
I joined a start up which had a 2mm valuation (only based on conv. notes language) prefunding/pre-rev/prewebsite with 2 full time employees (one being the founder), 3 founders and some free interns. I ...
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Where can i find comparable Sales Compensation data?
So I'm looking for some personal experiences on compensation for sales representatives from start-ups and/or established corporations. I've looked at many of the salary information websites but I'm ...
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Vesting Schedule for an initial “100% CTO”
Classic case startup, 1 biz-dev + 1 techie. The 1 techie gets to be the lone warrior to build the entire contraption. The gut rule seems 50-50, but there are complications with that. What's a better ...
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Profits Interest in a new LLC Start-up for an Executive Seeking Ownership Stake?
I've have been asked to head-up and manage a start-up LLC as the President/GM and sit on the board. I will have a base salary package and bonus plan; however, I've asked for an ownership stake in the ...
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What is fair equity for a lead or senior level position pre-series A?
I have been consulting with a small biotech firm that has a couple of VERY good engineer founders and no employees. They do know their field very well. They have been around for a year basically ...
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Royalties as a means for acknowledging founders
I am in the process of establishing a business with four partners. Initially the shares were going to be split between the four partners but now it is clear that the majority of the work will be done ...
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Fair equity/cash for one year's contribution?
So I asked a broader question on this situation before, but am now trying to narrow it down to the core issue after negotiations failed yet again with my co-founders.
I am a tech guy who joined a ...
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What compensation should a start-up give to a contact that facilitates an exit?
What is the typical compensation a tech startup should give to a contact that has found a buyer for your company?
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Restricted Stock Units (RSU) in a job offer
I've seen a few job offers where in addition to the salary the company offers X,000 Restricted Stock Units (RSU). I'm still trying to understand owning equity as one of the early employees for a ...
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Joining a startup [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
Apologies for the lack of brevity, but I wanted to give you a full picture of the situation. ...
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partnership models [closed]
I am trying to form a LLC with a Non resident. He has a company overseas running for 10 years. Both of us have a technical background.
My responsibility is to form LLC,open bank a/c coordinate with ...
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Option Grant Expires Soon but can't afford price. Workarounds?
I have a fairly large ISO grant that was awarded to me fully vested a month before I left the company (didnt find out specifics about it til after I left.) I have three months to exercise my options ...
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What is expected cash and equity compensation at a series C start up?
I am looking at a leadership position on the International side of the business for a Series C start up valued at 1bn. The job has 1 person between the role and the C-level. Company is obviously well ...
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Compensation for Board of Advisors of an LLC [duplicate]
What is the best way to compensate a Board of Advisor of an LLC? We have just started a company and would like to have about 3 advisors. A couple of the managers know some influential people who ...
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Compensation for employee participation on internal community site
I run a site which relies on an internal social network for communication between teachers and students. Most updates to the news feed (think Facebook status update) are students posting their updates ...
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Compensation for Co-founders, plus additional vested equity
I have a company share proposal for co-founders of a web-application startup. I would like to if the structure makes sense, or if anyone can suggest a more suitable structure, which has the desired ...
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The case of a co-founder (seeking answers on compensation/equity stake)
I am writing to describe my entrepreneurial venture and seek your comments on what I should expect for myself as the new company gets started.
My colleague of many years at my previous company (a ...
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pure equity compesation
I hired a full time person with equity-only compensation. The higher-than-usual rate reflects that. However the contract was not professionally written as it only mentions the equity part. Can that ...
